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SAINT MARK'S SCHOOL 

IN THE 
WAR AGAINST GERMANY 




EDWIN AUSTIN ABBEY, 2nd. 



SAINT MARK'S SCHOOL 

IN THE 
WAR AGAINST GERMANY 



EDITED BY 

ALBERT EMERSON BENSON, '88 




PRIVATELY PRINTED 
FOR THE SCHOOL /. MDCCCCXX 






COPYRIGHT, 1920 
BY SAINT mark's SCHOOL 



THE'PLIMPTON'PRESS-NOEWOOD'MASS'D'S'A 



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T)edicated to 

THE MEMORY OF 

THE BOYS OF SAINT MARK'S SCHOOL 

WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES 

IN THE 
WAR AGAINST GERMANY 



EDWIN AUSTIN ABBEY, 2ND 

OLIVER AMES, JR. 

JULIAN CORNELL BIDDLE 

ADDISON LEECH BLISS 

WILLIAM VERNON BOOTH, JR. 

WILLIAM MORTON BUNTING 

WILLIAM HALSALL CHENEY 

CHARLES DERHAM, JR. 

^RICHARD MATHER JOPLING 

EDWARD KEMP, JR. 

SAMUEL PIERCE MANDELL, 2ND 

GEORGE ALEXANDER McKINLOCK, JR. 

RICHARD MORTIMER, Jr. 

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN PEPPER 

RALPH SANGER 

NATHANIEL STONE SIMPKINS, JR. 

MOSES TAYLOR, JR. 

' JOHN BRODHEAD VAN SCHAICK 

HOLYOKE LEWIS WHITNEY 

FRANCIS APPLETON WOOD 



PREFACE 

In October, 1919, a request for the record of every 
living St. Mark's graduate and master who served in 
the war against Germany was sent out in the following 
terms : 

"Service in the army or navy of the United States, 
or the Allies, or 'auxiliary service.' The last includes 
volunteer ambulance and relief service abroad both be- 
fore and after this country entered the war, and work 
abroad in the Red Cross, Y.M.C.A., and similar organ- 
izations. A concise statement is wanted, giving organi- 
zation with which one is or was connected, dates of 
entering and leaving the service, rank on enlistment or 
entering, changes and promotions with dates, dis- 
tinctions won, battles engaged in, casualties suffered, 
and copies of citations." 

The following records are the result of this inquiry. 
Omissions are somewhat frequent throughout ; but in 
view of the distinctness of the request printed above, it 
has usually been assumed that these are intentional or 
unavoidable. Abbreviations of the names of organiza- 
tions have almost invariably been used by the writers ; 
and although a second inquiry has been made in every 
case where there seemed room for doubt as to the mean- 
ing, the present somewhat unsettled usage in this matter 
may have caused unsuspected errors. Authentic cor- 



viii PREFACE 

rections of such errors or of any others will be very 
thankfully received. 

The question as to whom to include in our record 
was a very difficult one, involving as it did the answers 
to two others: what does "served in the war" mean; 
and what period of residence at St. Mark's should de- 
cide whether a boy ought to be regarded as an alumnus 
of our school, or of some other attended before or 
afterwards. Inasmuch as practically all our alumni 
helped in some way or other to win the war, the limits 
of our formal record of service were necessarily de- 
fined as above. But the second question was more 
difficult, and had much less tangible implications. It 
was felt, however, that if a boy had spent only a short 
period in the School, or had graduated from another 
school and not St. Mark's, we could not claim his record 
as our own. In this way we are obliged to deprive our- 
selves of the splendid records of many men, of whom 
two at least made the supreme sacrifice for their 
country. 

It should go without saying that as the book is com- 
piled for the historical value of the records of our 
graduates, and is dedicated to the sacred memory of 
those of them who died, its true mission is to the St. 
Mark's boys of the future. The value of the School 
lies in that vital stream of tradition which flows ever 
deeper and stronger from year to year, and is to some 
extent retarded or strengthened by every boy who en- 
ters her gates. Of our boys who died, any word that we 
can say is pitifully weak. It is only by a true realiza- 
tion of what they did, and by doing our best to keep 
the School worthy of them, that we can claim any part 
in their fellowship. 



ABBREVIATIONS 

A.A.F.S. American Ambulance Field Service. 

A.A.S. Army Ambulance Service. 

A.E.F. American Expeditionary Force. 

A.F.S. American Field Service. 

A.R.C. American Red Cross. 

A.S. Air Service. 

A.S.A. Air Service, Aeronautics. 

B.E.F. British Expeditionary Force. 

C.A.C. Coast Artillery Corps. 

C.G. Coast Guard. 

C.O.T.S. Centi^al Officers' Training School. 

F.A. Field Artillery. 

G-1. (See G-4.) General Staff, administrative section. 
General Staff, intelligence section. 

G-2. General Staff, military opei'ations, tactics and 

G-3. strategy. 

G-4. (G-1 in Corps and Division Hq.) General Staff, Co-ordina- 
tion of all questions of transport and 
supply. 

G-5. General Staff, training, athletics. 

Hq. Headquarters. 

j.g. Junior grade. ' 

Med. C. Medical Corps. 

M.E.R.C. Medical Enlisted Reserve Corps. 

M.G. Machine Gun. 

M.O.R.C. Medical Officers' Reserve Corps. 

N.A. National Army. 

N.G. National Guard. 

N.R.F. Naval Reserve Force. 



X ABBREVIATIONS 

O.R.C. Oflacers' Reserve Corps. 

O.T.C. Officers' Ti-aining Camp. 

O.T.S, Officers' Training School. 

Q.M.C. Quartermasters' Corps. 

Q.M.R.C. Quartermasters' Reserve Corps. 

R.A.C. Regiment Artillerie de Campagne. 

R.A.F. Royal Air Force. 

R.A.S. Royal Air Service. 

R.C. Reserve Corps. 

R.O.T.C. Reserve Officers' Training Corps. 

S.A.T.C. Student Army Training Camp. 

S.C. Signal Corps. 

S.E.R.C. Signal Enlisted Reserve Corps. 

S.M.A. School of Military Aeronautics. 

S.O.R.C. Sigrial Officers' Reserve Corps. 

S.O.S. Service of Supply. 

S.P. Section Patrol. 

S.R.C. Signal Reserve Corps. 

S.S.U.* Section Sanitaire Americaine. 

U.S.N.R. (F.) United States Naval Reserve (Force). 

U.S.R. United States Reserve. 

* The "U" in the abbreviation is used for "United States," to 

distinguish the organization from "Section Sanitaire Anglaise." 

The official name was always as above. 



ST. MARK'S SCHOOL 

IN THE 
WAR AGAINST GERMANY 



'i' EDWIN AUSTIN ABBEY, 2nd, 1907. 

Edwin Austin Abbey, 2nd, the son of William B. 
and Katharine E. Abbey, was born in Mount Holly, 
New Jersey, on September twenty-second, 1888. 
Until he was twelve years old he attended the Mount 
Holly schools, and in 1901 entered St. Mark's, where 
he remained until his graduation in 1907. He then 
entered the Civil Engineering Department of the Uni- 
versity of Pennsylvania as a member of the class of 
1911, but a serious illness in his Sophomore year 
caused him to lose a year out of his course. He spent 
the fall of 1909 as a Master at Kent School, and then 
returned to the University to complete his Sophomore 
year. After graduating in June, 1912, he went in 
the employ of an Engineer on valuation work for the 
Canadian Pacific Railroad, and at the end of that 
summer entered the service of the railroad on the 
regular staff as transit man. Here he remained, except 
for a few months, until his enlistment with the 
Canadian Engineers for overseas service as a member 
of the Second Canadian Pioneer Battalion. 

After preliminary training in Guelph and Quebec 
the Battalion sailed from Halifax, December sixth, 

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1915, and remained in the training camp at Hazeley 
Down, near Winchester, England, until March seventh, 

1916, reaching the Canadian front in Flanders on 
March eleventh, Ash Wednesday. Abbey was wounded 
at Ypres early on Easter Day, April twenty-third, 
and sent to England, where he made a good recovery. 
At this time he was a Lance Corporal, and while in 
England was Acting Sergeant and Instructor. On 
the first of July he was put on a return draft for 
service at the Somme, but was withdrawn at the last 
moment and recommended by his Commanding Offi- 
cer for a commission. After some delay he was sent 
to the Officers' Training School at Shorncliffe, and 
returned to the front on the first of December, 1916, 
one of a picked class as Lieutenant in the Fourth 
Canadian Mounted Rifles. He was at the front con- 
tinuously until the middle of February, when the regi- 
ment was sent back to a rest billet, which included 
constant drill and training. He returned to the front 
about March seventeenth, and was killed in action 
at Vimy Ridge on Tuesday, April tenth, 1917. The 
following circumstances of his death are related in the 
letters of his brother officers. 

He was in charge of one of the most dangerous 
posts, a strong point in front of the trench, at a 
little distance over the crest of Vimy Ridge. It was 
necessary to hold it in order to deny to the enemy 
the approach up the hill. Because of losses suffered 
in the post it had almost been decided to withdraw from 
it during the day, but Abbey came and argued that 
he ought to continue to hold it because of its impor- 
tance ; thus showing his devotion to duty and disre- 
gard of danger. On the ninth of April he took forward 



WAR AGAINST GERMANY 3 

a party of men to reinforce the garrisons of some ad- 
vanced posts, and successfully effected the relief under 
heavy rifle fire at very close range. In one of them he 
found the officer in charge, Lieutenant W. J. Butson, 
Senior Subaltern of his company, seriously wounded, 
and realized that he could not live without immediate 
medical attention. He therefore took some of his men 
and decided to attempt to get Butson out. By every 
law in the world the thing seemed impossible; but ap- 
parently impossible things are done by some men, as 
this one was done by Abbey over absolutely open 
ground, in broad daylight, and in full view of the 
enemy at very close range. The ground the party had 
to cover was only about three hundred yards, but it 
was up a very steep and exposed slope. It took four 
hours to cover this ground by jumping from shell hole 
to shell hole with the wounded man. At the expiration 
of that time Abbey and one other man in the party, the 
others all casualties, carried Butson into the front 
line, all in a state of complete exhaustion. Abbey 
was then ordered to get some rest and not go forward 
again. He apparently stayed in the front line for a 
few hours, and then, in the early morning of the tenth 
of April, with four scouts, again started out for the 
advanced posts to see that all was well with his men. It 
was still dark, and he seems to have mistaken his bear- 
ings. It was all new ground and very difficult to locate, 
so he halted his men and went forward alone to find the 
post. The dawn was breaking, and he must have come 
right upon the line of German snipers. It is reported 
that he rose up suddenly from the ground and shouted 
to his men to get back to the lines ; gave the information 
as to where he had found the German line; and then 



4 SAINT MARK'S SCHOOL IN THE 

pitched forward and dropped. When later the enemy 
line had been forced farther back his body was found, 
and was buried practically where he fell. 

In the library at St. Mark's is a volume entitled "An 
American Soldier." To those who know what part of 
our School is beyond price and beyond praise this book 
will always be one of its proudest possessions. It 
shows, all unconsciously to the writer himself, the devel- 
opment of one we knew and loved into not merely an 
American Soldier, but a Soldier of that World which 
shall some day make wrong and injustice impossible. 
In these letters to his parents, beginning when he was 
working at his engineering in Canada, Abbey suffers at 
what seems the apathy of his Country towards the 
wrongs done to the world by Germany ; yet he strives 
to suspend judgment, lest he may not understand. His 
own personal duty is as clear to him as are his own holy 
ideals ; yet he will not move without his parents' ap- 
proval, nor will his love let him venture so much as a 
word to influence their decision. When at length he 
may go to his duty, his joy knows no bounds: the 
flood-gates of youth and enthusiasm seem to burst, and, 
as in the old athletic days at school and college, he 
girds up his loins heartily for the fray. It is now his 
chosen battle, because it is for good against evil: no 
particle of self-interest is in him. We begin to see more 
clearly than ever before how the miracle of crushing 
that evil was wrought ; and with this boy's heart before 
us we know with triumphant joy and gratitude that 
wrong can never again hope to conquer. And then we 
think of him as he was in school — slender, quiet, smil- 
ing, modest and persistent ; or engaged with his whole 
soul in the mimic battles on the athletic field ; and pray 



WAR AGAINST GERMANY 5 

that our St. Mark's boys in the future may be in some 
degree like this man. 

As has happened in other cases, his school and col- 
lege life was a prophecy which was fulfilled when op- 
portunity came. Inheriting an artistic temperament, 
he understood the joy of work well done, and therefore 
excelled both in athletics and his favorite study of 
English for their own sakes, as he did later in engineer- 
ing. After he went away his mother found prizes he 
had won in college athletics which he had never so 
much as mentioned. To him the world, though a beauti- 
ful place, was a field for the duty which alone could 
justify man's life ; and he was found worthy to see this 
duty performed. 



EDWARD MOSELEY ABBOT, 1901. 

In Oct., 1918, went to Camp Zachary Taylor, F.A., 
C.O.T.S., and joined the 52nd Training Battery. The 
term of service was about six weeks. 



CURTIS ALLEN, 1914. 

Private in the 1st Troop, Philadelphia City Cav- 
alry, from July 15 to Aug. 23, 1917. Candidate at the 
R.O.T.C, Fort Oglethorpe, Ga., from Aug. 26 to Nov. 
26. Commissioned 2nd Lieutenant Nov. 26, and served 
as such in M.G. Company, 39th Infantry, 4th Division 
at Camp Greene, Charlotte, N.C., from Dec. 15 to 
May 1, 1918. Took part in the Aisne-Marne offensive, 
July 18 to Aug. 11 ; Meuse-Argonne, Sept. 26 to Oct. 



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21. Commissioned 1st Lieutenant Nov. 16, and was 
with the 4th Division in the Army of Occupation from 
Dec, 1918, until Aug., 1919. Discharged Aug, 28, 
1919, with rank of 1st Lieutenant. 



THOMAS McKEAN ALLEN, 1918. 

Entered the S.A.T.C., University of Pennsylvania, 
in Sept., 1918, and was discharged in Dec. No perma- 
nent ranking was received by anybody there. 

WHARTON ALLEN, 1914. 

With the A.F.S. from Jan. 8, 1917, to Oct. 8, went 
to the 3rd O.T.S., Camp Meade, Md., Jan. 5, 1918, and 
resigned from this March 31. Private in the Hq. Com- 
pany, 310 F.A., 79th Division, Camp Meade, Apr. 1, 
1918; Corporal Apr. 15; Sergeant May 2; Acting 1st 
Sergeant May 15 ; and 1st Sergeant May 30. Sailed 
for overseas July 14. Attended the Saumur Artillery 
School, France, from Sept. 1 to Nov. 23, when the 
course was successfully completed; but no promotions 
were given because of Secretary of War Baker's order 
concerning promotions after the armistice was signed. 
Made 2nd Lieutenant Apr. 16, 1919; returned to the 
U.S. May 27 ; and was discharged at Camp Dix June 
8, 1919, as 2nd Lieutenant. 

^OLIVER AMES, Jr., 1913. 

Oliver Ames, Jr., the son of Oliver and Elise Alger 
(West) Ames, was born in Boston on the eighth of 




OLIVER AMES, Jr. 



WAR AGAINST GERMANY 7 

April, 1895. He first attended Noble's School, and en- 
tered St. Mark's in the First Form in 1907. He was 
a leader in scholarship, being a St. Mark's Scholar for 
three successive years ; and very prominent as an ath- 
lete, playing in his last two years on the football, base- 
ball, hockey and fives teams. He was also a monitor. 
He entered Harvard with the class of 1917, and on 
May the eleventh of that year left for Plattsburg. He 
was married on the sixth of October to Miss Caroline 
Fessenden, of Boston, who, with a young daughter, 
survives him. 

Upon receiving his commission at the Reserve Offi- 
cers' Training Camp at Plattsburg he was sent to 
Camp Devens as an officer in the 151st Depot Brigade. 
He was soon transferred to the Rainbow Division at 
Mineola, Long Island, and went overseas with that 
division. He became Acting Battalion Adjutant of his 
regiment, serving under Major Donovan, and then 
took a special course at an officers' training camp. 
Upon the completion of this course he returned to his 
regiment, and at once went with it into action. He 
was killed in an attack on Bois Brule, at Meurcy Farm. 

The reports of his fellow-officers state that Major 
Donovan had advanced into the open, under a storm 
of machine-gun and shell fire. Ames had been told to 
remain behind; but his solicitude for his Major would 
not allow him to do so, and he ran out to join him. 
They took shelter beside the bank of a brook ; but had 
no sooner got there than a sniper's bullet, probably 
intended for Major Donovan, struck Ames in the 
head, killing him instantly. The Distinguished Service 
Cross was awarded to him in the following terms : "Dur- 
ing the fighting at Meurcy farm, near Villiers-sur-Fere, 



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France, July 27-28, 1918, his heroic leadership was an 
inspiration to his command. He fought gallantly 
until on the last day he was killed while going forward 
voluntarily through machine-gun and snipers' fire to 
the assistance of his battalion commander." 

The testimony of officers and men associated with 
Ames gives equal emphasis to his efficiency as a soldier 
and his devotion as a man. Untiring, cheerful, open- 
hearted as when he was a boy at school, he was bitterly 
mourned by everybody who had come in contact with 
him, from his superior officer for whom he gave his life 
to the common soldier, whom he cared for as for a 
younger brother. A tablet has been erected to his 
memory in the church at North Easton, bearing the in- 
scription: "In loving memory of a gallant soldier and 
high-minded gentleman . . . pure in heart, unfailing in 
duty, he died as he lived, without fear and without 
reproach." The following has been said of him by one 
of his friends : 

Not in his noble death, but in his way of life will our 
memory live and be always green. The summer of 
1918 was rich with sacrifice, as if God walked with men 
upon the battlefield to make them smile at death. To 
many a man this sudden giving of all he had was a 
peak, unexpectedly revealed at the end of life, high 
ground in his being, the existence of which neither he 
nor those nearest him dreamed ; it was the flowering of 
a supposedly barren soul, the momentary filling of life. 
But it was not so with Ames. His death beside the 
Ourcq was the summing up in the briefest moment of 
time of all that had gone before. 

His Commanding Officer, who had hurried forward to 
steady a bitterly engaged group of his battalion, wrote : 



WAR AGAINST GERMANY 9 

"Ames came running up behind me to look out for me. 
I ordered him back; but he just smiled and said he was 
going to stay with me. He came up and lay beside 
me. ... I half turned, and as I did, a sniper's bullet 
struck Ames in the ear. He died instantly." 

There is much more than devoted bravery in this 
death; like Sidney's act upon the field of Zutphen, it 
epitomizes the entire life of which it was the perfect 
end. As Ames died, he had lived. He had an instinct 
for the true things of life, and kept his simplicity un- 
tarnished ; at twenty-two he was as sincere, as earnest, 
as devoid of false views and values as when he was a 
child. To the soldiers who served under him he was 
"a good scout, as white as a white man should be" ; 
they who had daily contact with him appreciated his 
natural sincerity. 

But perhaps only those who knew him best realized 
the quality of his ideals. He practised a true, straight 
life ; he did not preach. Never imposing his opinion 
or his will on others, in a subtler way, though quite un- 
consciously, be benefited us all. He played fairly and 
squarely. He loved games, and with tj'pical earnestness 
loved to win ; but, above this, every stroke was a true 
stroke, every effort an honest effort. Neither fortune 
nor desire could bend his honor to act meanly. His 
delight in life, his zest for the sun and fresh wind of 
out of doors, were a fine expression of his soundness of 
spirit. 

As his heart was clear and fair, so it was tender. He 
was a gentle judge and a devoted friend. With the 
means to be generous in worldly things, to those he 
loved he was generous of his heart. If his friends 
grieved, he grieved; their joys were his, and his under- 



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standing sympathy went out to meet them. And thus 
imperceptibly he made himself a part of many lives. 
Some of his simple faith, some of his unflinching honor, 
some of his cleanliness, no German bullet could strike 
down in the Ourcq valley; some of it is planted to en- 
dure the weathering of time in other hearts. 



RICHARD AMES, 1915. 

Enlisted May 7, 1918, at Camp Devens as a Pri- 
vate in the 303rd Infantry, 76th Division. Went to 
France July 7, and was at the O.T.S. at Langres Nov. 
11, the day of the armistice. Returned to America July 
9, 1919. [Report by Mrs. O. Ames.] 



HENRY SARGENT APPLETON, 1906. 

Served with the U.S. Navy Intelligence at relief 
work in Syria from Feb. 1, 1919, to July 1, 1919. 



WILLIAM HENRY APPLETON, 1902. 

Volunteered for the U.S.N.R.F. as a Seaman of 
the 2nd class, Jan, 7, 1918, and was called to active 
service at Pelham Bay Jan. 11. In the ranks at first, 
then made Pettj^ Officer, and afterwards Captain of a 
company. The work consisted largely of drilling and 
guard duty. Sent to the O.T.S. with Station rating 
of Boatswain's Mate of the 1st class. Released by 
request from active service Dec. 11, 1918. 



WAR AGAINST GERMANY 11 

LESTER ARMOUR, 1914. 

Enlisted in the U.S.N.R.F. May 2, 1917. Trans- 
ferred to Naval Aviation in Oct., and stationed at the 
Mass. Institute of Technology; then Bayshore, L.I., 
and finally Pensacola, Fla. Commissioned Ensign, Na- 
val Aviation. Relieved from active duty March 3, 
1919. 

PHILIP DANFORTH ARMOUR, 1912. 

Enlisted Sept. 15, 1917, and entered the S.M.A., 
Ohio State University, Columbus, O., Jan. 26, 1918, 
as a Private, candidate for a commission. Completed 
the eight weeks' course of training March 25, and was 
commissioned 2nd Lieutenant, A.S.A. First assigned 
to Gerstner Field, Lake Charles, La., and there sta- 
tioned until May 24, when relieved and transferred to 
Camp Dick, Dallas, Tex. Oct. 8, ordered to Hazel- 
hurst Field, Mineola, L.L, and there assigned to the 
Casual Detachment as Adjutant, continuing as such 
until honorably discharged Dec. 13, 1918. 



WENTWORTH CRUGER BACON, 1900. 

Served in France with the A.R.C., Purchasing De- 
partment of Hospital Supplies, from Oct. 31, 1917, to 
Sept. 8, 1918. Resigned to accept a commission as 2nd 
Lieutenant, Q.M.C., Remount Division, U.S. Army. At 
Hq., Paris, until Dec. 2. Stationed at La Rochelle Re- 



12 SAINT MARK'S SCHOOL IN THE 

mount Depot 4. Made Summary Court Officer and 
Adjutant in March, 1919. Closed the Depot in June, 
and was honorably discharged in France July 15, 1919. 



GEORGE HARMON BARBER, Ex-1914. 

Entered the service as 2nd Lieutenant of Cavalry 
Aug. 15, 1917, and was assigned to the 184th Brigade, 
Jan. 3, 1918, promoted to 1st Lieutenant, F.A., and 
appointed Aide-de-Camp to the Commanding General. 
Nov. 2, promoted to Captain of F.A. Oct. 22, trans- 
ferred to the 28th Division as Aide-de-Camp to the 
Commanding General. Was engaged in the following 
sectors: Vosges, July and Aug., 1918; Argonne, Sept. 
and Oct., 1918; Woevre, Oct. and Nov., 1918. Dis- 
charged as Captain, F.A., Aug. 24, 1919. 



HENRY ANSON BARBER, 1915. 

Left St. Mark's in June, 1913, to enter West Point. 
Served with the 9th M.G. Battalion, 3rd Division, 
Regular, as 2nd Lieutenant and then as 1st Lieuten- 
ant, and was promoted to Captain Sept. 8, 1918, after 
the battle of the Marne, July 15. Took part in the 
Marne defensive July 15-18, 1918; the Marne offensiA^e, 
July 19-21 ; the Vesle offensive, Aug. 8-14; and the bat- 
tle at St. Mihiel, in Sept. Received the Distinguished 
Service Cross ; the Legion d'Honneur ; and the Croix de 
Guerre with Palm. At present 1st Lieutenant of In- 
fantry (M.G.) U.S.A. [Oct., 1919.] The only citation 



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at present accessible is the following for the Distin- 
guished Service Cross : 

"For extraordinary heroism in action near Moulins, 
France, July 14-15, 1918. Seeing his right flank 
badly exposed to the enemy's advance across the Marne, 
Lieutenant Barber changed the position of two of his 
guns to meet this emergency, performing this task dur- 
ing terrific enemy fire. He then ran a distance of 150 
yards in the open to stop the fire of our own infantry 
on our troops. Going forward to the aid of a wounded 
soldier. Lieutenant Barber administered first aid and 
was carrying the wounded man to safety when the lat- 
ter died. Picking up the one remaining undamaged 
gun, he opened fire on the enemy, who were crossing 
the river, sinking one boat, killing many, and causing 
the others to abandon their boats." 



THEODORE PHILIP BARBER, 1912. 

Not accepted, for physical reasons, for the Army, 
and entered the A.R.C. Ambulance Service in Italy in 
March, 1918. Attached to the Italian 4th Army in 
the Mt. Grappa section. Took part against the 
Austrian offensive in June and July, 1918, and in the 
Italian offensive in Oct. and Nov., 1918. Was awarded 
the Italian War Cross in Nov., 1918. Discharged in 
Dec, 1918. The citation follows : 

"Con fraterno interessamento contribuirono efficace- 
mente al transporto ai primi luoghi di cura dei nume- 
rosi feriti delle azioni militari dello scorso Ottobre 
gareggiando per zelo, abnegazione e sprezzo del pericolo 
nel disimpegno del loro servizio." 



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THURLOW WEED BARNES, 1908. 

Enlisted as a Private in the Q.M.C. Sept. 23, 1918, 
and was assigned to the O.T.S. at Camp Jos. E. John- 
ston, Fla. Commissioned 2nd Lieutenant in the 
Q.M.R.C. Dec. 7, 1918, and discharged the same day. 



CLERMONT LIVINGSTON BARNWELL, 1907. 

At Plattsburg Camp, May-June, 1917, and at Fort 
Monroe Camp, June- Aug. Commissioned Captain, Coast 
Artillery R.C., Aug. 15 ; commanding 5th Company, 
S.N.Y. (regulars) at Fort Wadsworth, N.Y., from 
Aug. 29 to June 1, 1918. In France with the 70th 
Coast Artillery Regiment, 1st Army, from July 22 to 
Feb. 12, 1919; commanding the 1st Battalion of the 
70th Coast Artillery after the armistice. Honorably 
discharged at Camp Upton, N.Y., March 12, 1919. 



LINCOLN BAYLIES, 1911. 

Commissioned Captain of F.A. at the First O.T.C., 
Plattsburg Barracks, N.Y., Aug. 15, 1917. Assigned 
to the 302nd F.A. and joined it on the date of its 
formation early in Sept., 1917. Served with the same 
regiment in the U.S. and in France until discharged 
at Camp Devens, May 8, 1919. In action with the 
regiment east of the Meuse in the St. Hilaire offensive, 
St. Mihiel sector. 



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WILLIAM DeFORD REAL, 1907. 

From May -to Dec, 1917, Assistant Manager and 
Head of the Rureau of Development in the N.E. Divi- 
sion of the A.R.C. Dec. 1 to Jan. 20, 1918, associated 
with the War Trade Roard in Washington. Jan. 23, 
commissioned 1st Lieutenant in the Chemical Warfare 
service. Jan. 28, ordered for duty to the Gas Defence 
Plant, Long Island City, and remained there until 
Feb. 1, 1919. Oct. 31, promoted to the rank of Cap- 
tain. Feb. 1, 1919, to Feb. 28, on duty in the Gas 
Defence Hq., New York City. Discharged Feb. 28, 
1919. 



HAROLD RICKHAM REERE, 1909. 

Enlisted in June, 1917, at Roston, as a Private in 
Company R, 101st Engineers, and received the rank 
of Corporal in July. Commissioned 2nd Lieutenant 
of Infantry after attending the Army Candidate School 
at Langres, France, in March, 1918, attached to the 
35th Division, 137th Infantry. In June, 1918, as- 
signed to Company L, 132nd Infantry, 33rd Division. 
Received rank as 1st Lieutenant of Infantry in Aug., 
1918. Attached to Division Hq. as Assistant G-3 in 
Aug. Received discharge at Camp Devens, Ayer, 
Mass., in June, 1919. Took part in the following bat- 
tles : Chipilly Ridge (Rritish Front) and Argonne- 
Meuse (American Front). 



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FENWICK BEEKMAN, 1902. 

Joined the Med. R.C., U.S. Army, receiving the 
commission of 1st Lieutenant in Apr., 1916. In Aug., 
attended the M.R.C. Camp at Plattsburg. Ordered 
to active service May 5, 1917, and attached to the 
11th Engineers, U.S.A., as Medical Officer. Sailed 
for overseas July 14, arriving in England July 26 and 
in France Aug. 6. Served on the British Somme 
front, the Regiment being attached to the 3rd British 
Army, from July 6 to Jan. 29, 1918, taking part in 
the battle of Cambrai Nov. 20 to Dec. 31, 1917. In 
Feb. and March, with Regiment railway construction 
in the centre of France. March 6, became Regimental 
Surgeon. Apr. 11, promoted to Captain, Med. C. In 
Apr., May and June, with the Regiment at the British 
Arras front, being part of the British 1st Army, which 
had the defence of Arras during this period. June 26, 
detached from the 11th Engineers and attached to 
Base Hospital 2, U.S.A., which was serving with the 
British at Etretat. Arrived home from overseas Feb. 
3, 1919, and was honorably discharged Feb. 26. Re- 
ceived a citation from the Commander-in-Chief, A.E.F., 
"for exceptionally Meritorious and Conspicuous Ser- 
vices at Cambrai, France, Nov. 20 to Dec. 1, 1917." 



MORGAN BELMONT, 1910. 

Enlisted in the S.E.R.C. Oct. 5, 1917. Commis- 
sioned 2nd Lieutenant, A.S., S. R.C., Dec. 27. In over- 
seas service from Feb. 25, 1918, to Jan. 25, 1919, and 



WAR AGAINST GERMANY 17 

was promoted to 1st Lieutenant, A.S.A., Oct. 15, 1918. 
Discharged Jan. 27, 1919. 



RAYMOND BELMONT, 1905 (1906 P.G.). 

Commissioned 2nd Lieutenant of Cavalry, U.S.R., 
Aug. 15, 1917. Attached to the 311th Infantry Sept. 
1-15, 1917; to the 309th M.G. Battalion Sept. 15-20; 
and assigned to Hq. Troop, 78th Division, Sept. 20. 
Served with this organization until demobilized June 
12, 1919. Commissioned 1st Lieutenant, F.A., Feb. 8, 
1918, and Captain, F.A., March 28, 1919. Served in 
the St. Mihiel operations. Limey sector, Sept. 14 to 
Oct. 3, 1918; the Meuse-Argonne operations, Grand- 
pre, Oct. 16 to Nov. 8, 1918. Served in the A.E.F. 
from May 20, 1918, to June 3, 1919. 



HAMILTON FISH BENJAMIN, 1894. 

Enlisted as a Private of the 1st class in the A.S., 
S.R.C., Nov. 12, 1917, and reported for a course of 
training to the S.C., Aviation School for Non-flying 
Officers, at Kelly Field, San Antonio, Tex., Nov. 24. 
Graduated Jan. 12, 1918, and was assigned to duty in 
the office of the Department Aeronautical Officer, 
Southern Department, Fort Sam Houston, Tex. Hon- 
orably discharged as a Private Jan. 19, 1918; accepted 
a commission as 1st Lieutenant in the A.S., S.R.C. Jan. 
20 ; and was ordered to report to the Department Aero- 
nautical Officer of the Eastern Department, New York 
City, Jan. 26. Ordered May 2 to Pittsburgh, Pa., to 



18 SAINT MARK'S SCHOOL IN THE 

take command of the A.S. Mechanics Training School 
at the Carnegie Institute of Technology. Ordered 
June 26 to report to the Department Aeronautical 
Officer, Eastern Department, New York City, upon 
the completion of duties with the above mentioned 
school. Ordered Aug. 2 to report at Hazelhurst Field, 
Mineola, L.I., for duty with the 1st Reserve Wing. 
Ordered Aug. 15 to report to the Director of Military 
Aeronautics, Washington, D.C., and was assigned to 
duty in the Mechanical Instruction Branch of the 
Training Section. Honorably discharged Dec. 2, 1918. 



JULIAN ARNOLD BENJAMIN, 1894. 

Captain in the 3rd U.S. Cavalry when war was de- 
clared. From Apr. 6, 1917, to Apr. 25, at Fort Sam 
Houston, Tex., and Apr, 26 to May 6 recruiting at 
Houston for the 1st O.T.C. From then until July 23, 
continued in various services at Fort Sam Houston, 
and embarked on the transport Saratoga at Hoboken 
July 28. The Saratoga was run into and sunk in New 
York Harbor July 30. Left the U.S. on the transport 
Lenope Aug. 7, and arrived at St. Nazaire, France, 
Aug. 20. Stayed at St. Nazaire until Nov. 7, and at 
Nevers from Nov. 22 until June 12, 1918, commanding 
the 1st Division Supply Train (wagon). From June 13 
to 21 at Hq., Intermediate Section, S.O.S. June 22, 
assigned to the 77th Division. June 27 to Aug. 29, 
Lieutenant-Colonel of the 307th Infantry. With the 
Regiment at the front in the Baccarat sector from 
June 28 to July 15 ; at Hq., 77th Division, Baccarat, to 
Aug. 4. In charge of animal-drawn trains of the 77th 



WAR AGAINST GERMANY 19 

Division on the march from Coulommiers to Vesle, Aug. 
10 to 14. With the Regiment on the "Vesle front from 
Aug. 14 to 28, commanding it from Aug. 21 to 27. Aug. 
30, 1918, to March 17, 1919, Lieutenant-Colonel, 306th 
Infantry. With the Regiment on the Vesle front and 
the advance to the Aisne (Oise-Aisne offensive) ; on the 
march to the Argonne ; and in the Meuse-Argonne of- 
fensive, Sept. 26 to Nov. 11, commanding it from Oct. 
20 to 25, and Nov. 2 to 4. Performed various duties 
until July 14, 1919 ; then sailed from Brest on S.S. Rot- 
terdam, and arrived in the U.S. July 22. Aug. 2 as- 
signed to the 14th Cavalry. At Fort Sam Houston 
since Aug. 22. [Dec, 1919.] Discharged as Lieuten- 
ant-Colonel, only, Oct. 16. 

Major-General Robert Alexander records in the Gen- 
eral Orders of the Division (No. 41) a tribute to Lieu- 
tenant-Colonel Benjamin "for gallant and inspiring 
conduct in the advance on the town of La Besace, by 
preceding his own troops into the town, taking with him 
only his Orderly. This ofScer was the first American 
soldier to enter the town of La Besace, signifying de- 
liverance to an imprisoned population of 5,000 French 
civilians. He further displayed courage by leading a 
mounted patrol one kilometer beyond the town, devel- 
oping heavy machine-gun fire. His coolness and effi- 
cient leadership enabled the patrol to successfully com- 
plete its mission and return with valuable information. 
This officer's orders of advance terminated in the suc- 
cessful capture of La Besace, and his voluntary leading 
of mounted patrol was a further inspiration to our 
troops in pursuing the enemy." 



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JAMES GERALD BENKARD, 1892. 

Attended the Plattsburg O.T.C. from May 12, 
1917, to Aug. 14. Captain of Infantry, U.S.A., Camp 
Upton, N.Y. Discharged Dec. 24, 1918. Previous mil- 
itary experience. Private, Troop A, N.Y. Volunteers, 
May 2 to Nov. 28, 1898, expedition to Porto Rico. 

JOHN PHILIP BENKARD, 1889. 

Went to the Plattsburg O.T.C. Aug. 23, 1917, and 
was made Captain in the S.C. Nov. 8. Detailed to the 
Liaison Service, and sailed for France March 3, 1918. 
Served as Liaison Officer on the staffs of Generals 
Jerome Le Grand and Le Conte with the Trente- 
troisieme Corps d'Armee near Verdun in Oct. Execu- 
tive Officer, G-3, Hq. 1st Army, A.E.F. in Sept. and 
Oct. Took part in the battles of St. Mihiel and Ar- 
gonne-Meuse. Arrived home Apr. 3, and was discharged 
Apr. 6, 1919. Decorated Chevalier of the Legion of 
Honor. Previous military experience, Captain, 12th 
N.Y. Volunteers, 1898-99 in Cuba. 



EDMUND NEVILLE BENNETT, 1905 
(P.G. 1906). 

Private in the 153rd Depot Brigade, Camp Dix, 
N.J., June 26, 1918, the date of entering the service by 
draft. From July 15 to Oct. 15, Private of the 1st 
Class, 9th Company C.O.T.S., Camp Lee, Va. From 
Oct. 17 to Jan. 28, 1919, 2nd Lieutenant of Infantry, 



WAR AGAINST GERMANY 21 

11th Battalion, Military Police, 152nd Depot Brigade, 
Camp Upton, N.Y. Discharged from the service, Jan. 
28, 1919. 



ROGER WILLIAMS BENNETT, 1909. 

Entered the Plattsburg Training Camp May 12» 
1917 ; was commissioned 2nd Lieutenant Aug. 15, 1917, 
and assigned to the 101st Infantry, 26th Division, Aug. 
31, on duty with Company G. Transferred to Company 
F, sailing from New York Sept. 7, and to Company M 
Dec. 27. Served in the Chemin des Dames sector from 
Feb. 7 to March 21, 1918, and in the Toul sector from 
March 31 to June 26. Wounded (gas) May 31. Trans- 
ferred to 2nd Officer, 3rd Battalion, 101st Infantry, 
July 5. Served in the Pas Fini sector, eight kilometers 
west of Chateau-Thierry, from July 5 to 20, and at the 
second battle of the Marne July 20-26. Promoted to 
1st Lieutenant Aug. 13. Appointed to the Summary 
Court, 3rd Battalion, 101st Infantry, about Aug. 30. 
Present at the reduction of the St. Mihiel salient Sept. 
12-13; in the Troyon sector, twenty-five kilometers 
north of St. Mihiel, from Sept. 16 to 30; and trans- 
ferred to Company M, 101st Infantry, Oct. 10. Served 
in the Meuse-Argonne offensive, Oct. 23-25, and was 
wounded Oct. 25. Appointed Judge Advocate, Special 
Court Martial, Dec. 12, and Judge Advocate, General 
Court Martial, Dec. 21. Ordered on special duty to 
command Labor Detachment 2, Hq. 26th Division, 
Jan. 18, 1919. Returned to Company M, 101st In- 
fantry, March 22. Arrived in Boston Apr. 5, and was 
discharged from the service Apr. 28, 1919. 



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GRISCOM BETTLE, 1910. 

Entered the service in Aug., 1917, and was com- 
missioned Captain, F.A., Nov. 27. Commanding Officer 
of the 312th Trench Mortar Battery, 87th Division, 
to Oct., 1918. At Hq., 151st F.A. Brigade as Opera- 
tions Officer from Oct., 1918, to Feb., 1919. Overseas 
from Aug., 1918, to Feb., 1919. Took part in the Toul 
offensive, Nov. 8 to 11, 1918. Discharged Feb. 20, 
1919. 

ALFRED ALEXANDER RIDDLE, 1904 
(P.G. 1905). 

From May 8 to Aug. 15, 1917, at the O.T.C., Fort 
Myer, Ya., 4th Company, 2nd Battery. Graduated as 
Captain, F.A., and from Sept. 1 to March 1, 1918, was 
at Camp Lee, Va. Assigned to the 314th F.A. as 2nd 
Battalion Adjutant, then 1st Battalion, Adjutant, 
commanding the 2nd Battalion, and Commanding Offi- 
cer of Battery C. From March 1 to Sept., Aide-de- 
Camp to Major-General Biddle, Commanding General, 
Base Section No. 2, A.E.F. From Sept. to Dec, at 
the Saumur Artillery School, A.E.F. , and from Dec. 
to June, 1919, with the Ammunition Train, 88th Di- 
vision, and Assistant G-1, 88th Division, A.E.F. 



JULIAN CORNELL BIDDLE, 1908. 

Julian Cornell Biddle, the son of Arthur Biddle 
and Julia Biddle, was born in Philadelphia on the nine- 




JULIAN CORNELL BIDDLE 



WAR AGAINST GERMANY 23 

teenth of April, 1890. When about eight years old he 
spent some time in Dresden, Germany; and upon his 
return went to school in Philadelphia. He en- 
tered the Second Form at St. Mark's in 1903, and 
worked with characteristic zeal at both studies and 
athletics, making a good record in both, particularly 
the former. In his Sixth Form year he was made a 
monitor. He entered Yale College ; and after receiving 
his degree in 1912, took a secretaryship under Colonel 
O'Brian, the United States Minister to Japan. He 
was immediately interested in the Japanese as a race, 
and seems to have been convinced that the popular 
judgment of them as shallow and lacking in fundamen- 
tals is erroneous ; and this opinion is the more interest- 
ing as coming from one unusually skilful and prompt 
at character analysis. In 1914, when the war broke 
out, he at once perceived that America would have to 
enter the struggle sooner or later; and consequently 
in the summer of 1915 he spent his vacation in the 
Curtiss Aeroplane Works, near Buffalo, and gained 
the experience which stood him in such good stead 
later in France. 

In the summer of 1916 he received his Pilot's license 
at Essington. He was accepted for enlistment in the 
Foreign Legion, and was sent to the French Military 
Aviation School at Avord, where he received his brevet 
and graduated in a very short time. He was then sent 
to Pau for acrobatics, and on the thirty-first of July 
he was ordered to Plessis-Belleville for assignment as 
a battle pilot. On the seventh of August he was sent 
to Souilly, and afterwards to Dunkirk, where he was 
assigned to Escadrille Number 73, Groupe de Combat 
Number 12. On the eighteenth of August, while he 



24 SAINT MARK'S SCHOOL IN THE 

was on a practice flight, his plane fell into the North 
Sea, from an unknown cause. Eight days later his 
body was washed ashore at Egmond-aan-Zee, North 
Holland, where the civil authorities reported that it 
appeared torn by shot. He was buried in the village 
churchyard at this place. Biddle appears to have 
been the first American who volunteered after the 
United States entered the war to be killed at the front. 
In January, 1918, he was awarded the Aero Club of 
America medal "for valor and distinguished services"; 
and he also received the ribbon of the Lafayette Flying 
Corps. His citation is in the Journal Officiel of July 
the seventh, 1919. 

Biddle's letters from France indicate wide powers of 
observation, and draw unusually clear pictures of the 
feverish action and changing circumstances of Paris 
during the trying months of hurry and distress. He 
does not conceal the dangers of his task, but thereby 
proves his superiority to them ; and his interest and 
enthusiasm for his work pervade everything that he 
writes. Throughout these letters run also the self- 
reliance and frankness which are so familiar to his 
friends, whether in facing strange situations or apply- 
ing himself to his own training. He was able to enjoy 
whatever social distractions circumstances offered, and 
dwells with great interest on the chance meetings with 
friends and fellow-soldiers from home. 

Julian Biddle was conspicuous among his school- 
mates at St. Mark's for his two characteristics of fear- 
lessness and determination. He, like Mandell, was un- 
affected by popular opinion as such: he saw clearly 
beyond the external shows of school spirit and loyalty, 
and worked hard and impersonally to justify them. 



WAR AGAINST GERMANY 25 

Difficulties meant nothing to him, and whatever oppo- 
sition he encountered in his straightforward course not 
only failed to turn him, but did not even disturb him. 
Such strength of purpose might have been perplexing 
if it had ever been used capriciously ; but it was not. He 
seems to have had from his early boyhood a solid basis 
of right thinking, entirely detached from considerations 
of self, and dedicated to pure principle. When this 
loyalty was transferred, or rather enlarged, to embrace 
the duty to his country, it flowered into extraordinary 
activity and practical efficiency. Five hours of flying 
won him his Pilot's license, and upon arriving at the 
flying school at Avord he received his commission in 
record time. The exact circumstances of his death are 
not known; but those who know him know that what- 
ever they were, he encountered them as he had encoun- 
tered everything in his brave life, without a disturbing 
thought or an instant's hesitation. In his will he showed 
his love and devotion to his School by leaving to her 
everything that he had earned in his business since his 
graduation ; but in his life he left St. Mark's far more 
than money can ever buy : an example of clean loyalty, 
service, and unfailing sincerity and love. 



EDWARD LIVINGSTON BIGELOW, 1917. 

At the Harvard R.O.T.C. in 1917 and 1918, 
and the C.O.T.S., Camp Lee, Va., from Oct. to Jan., 
1918, with the rank of Private. 



26 SAINT MARK'S SCHOOL IN THE 



GEORGE HOYT BIGELOW, 1909. 

Commissioned 1st Lieutenant in the Med. C. in Aug., 

1917, and first assigned to the Rockefeller Institute, 
N.Y., for the month of Nov. From Dec, 1917, to July, 

1918, served at the Department Laboratory, Fort Sam 
Houston, Texas ; then at Camp Wadsworth, Spartan- 
burg, S.C., where Base Hospital 56 was organizing. 
Aug. 29 sailed from Hoboken with Base Hospital 56, 
which was sent to the Hospital Centre, Allerey, Saone 
et Loire, France. Here detached for service at the 
Base Laboratory. Returned through St. Nazaire, 
landing Apr. 31, and was discharged from the service 
May 4, 1919. Received a Captain's commission in 
Feb., 1919. 



HENRY DAVIS BIGELOW, 1916. 

Enlisted May 5, 1917, as a Private in the 101st 
U.S. Engineers, C Company, and served with it 
throughout until discharged Apr. 28, 1919. Made 
Corporal July 10, 1917; Sergeant Apr. 19, 1918; and 
Sergeant of the 1st class Apr. 10, 1919. The following 
battles, engagements, etc., are copied from the Service 
Records: Toul sector, Apr. 1, 1918, to June 26; Xiv- 
ray defensive, June 16; Pas Fini sector, July 7 to July 
15; Champagne-Marne defensive, July 15 to July 18; 
Aisne-Marne offensive, July 18 to Aug. 3; Rupt sec- 
tor, Sept. 2 to Sept. 12 ; St. Mihiel offensive, Sept. 12 
to Sept. 16; Troyon sector, Sept. 16 to Oct. 8; Meuse- 
Argonne offensive, Sept. 26 to Nov. 11, 1918. 



WAR AGAINST GERMANY 27 



HORACE BINNEY, 1893. 

May 7, 1917, entered the U.S. Army Med. R.C. with 
the rank of Captain, attached to the U.S. Army Base 
Hospital No. 5. Served in France with this unit from 
May 31, 1917, to Apr. 7, 1919, as Ward Surgeon, and 
from Aug., 1917, as Chief of Surgical Service. Pro- 
moted to Major Nov. 13, 1917, and to Lieutenant- 
Colonel Feb. 17, 1919. Discharged from the service 
Apr. 29, 1919. 



OLIVER WILLIAM BIRD, Jr., 1910. 

Entered the service Sept. 9, 1917, as a Private, 77th 
Division, N.A. Appointed Sergeant, Ordnance Depart- 
ment, Oct. 25. Transferred from Camp Upton, Yap- 
hank, L.I., to Washington, Sept. 25, 1917, reporting 
to the Chief of Ordnance. Transferred to the Pro- 
duction Section under Brigadier-General Charles E. 
Jamieson, and put in charge of procurement of ma- 
chine tool equipment for plants manufacturing field 
artillery. Transferred to the United States Midvale 
Gun Plant, Nicetown, Philadelphia, Pa., July 22, 1918, 
as Assistant to Captain H, L. Cox in charge of the con- 
struction of a plant for the manufacture of 62-16" 
howitzers. Recommended for a captaincy in Aug., 
1918, but the commission was held up by the armistice 
in Nov. Honorably discharged Jan. 4, 1919. Did not 
apply for a commission in the reserve. Most recent 
rank, 1st Lieutenant, so commissioned Dec. 15, 1917. 



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MAURICE CARY BLAKE, Master. 

With the 1st Provisional Training Regiment, 6th 
Company, 1st Battery, New England, 1st Plattsburg 
Camp, May-Aug., 1917. Made 1st Lieutenant, 
F.A.R.C, Aug 15. With the 301st F.A., Camp Devens, 
Mass., from Aug. 20 to Dec. 20 ; Acting Regimental 
Adjutant, Nov.-Dec. With the 1st Army Hq. Regi- 
ment, Company B, Camp Greene, N.C., from Dec. 25 
to Feb. 10, 1918; Hq. 4th F.A. Brigade, Camp Greene, 
from Feb. 10 to May ; at Camp de Songe, France, 
June-July ; detailed for instruction at Hq., 32nd Corps, 
Artillery (French), July; and served in the Ourcq- 
Yesle operation July 25 to Aug. 8. At Hq., 4th Divis- 
ion, and served at St. Mihiel, from Sept. 12 to 15, and 
Argonne-Meuse from Sept. 25 to Oct. 20. At 2nd 
Army Artillery Hq., Toul, from Oct. 21 to Dec. 1 ; 
2nd Army Hq., from Dec. 1 to 15 ; and Advanced Gen- 
eral Hq., Treves, from Dec. 15 to Jan. 28, 1919. De- 
mobilized in France with promotion to Captain, F.A., 
recommended. 



HAROLD BLANCHARD, 1894. 

Commissioned Major in the Infantry, O.R.C., Jan. 
5, 1917. Ordered on active service May 8, and re- 
ported to the Commanding Officer of the 1st O.T.C. at 
Fort McPherson on the same day, as Assistant to the 
Senior Instructor. Later appointed Range Officer. 
Sept. 5, on its organization, joined the 327th Infantry, 
82nd Division, Camp Gordon, Atlanta, Ga., and was 



WAR AGAINST GERMANY 29 

assigned to the command of the 2nd Battalion. Sailed 
from New York Apr. 25, 1918. Arrived at Liverpool 
May 7, and at Le Havre May 10. Trained under the 
British on the Somme for five weeks. The Battalion 
was billeted in Franleu and FrireuUes, Somme. The 
Division took over the Toul sector June 28 ; remained 
six weeks there, then at Pagny-sur-Meuse for ten days, 
then took over the Marbache sector, and took part in 
the St. Mihiel offensive. The Division was moved in 
trucks to the Argonne forest, and was there Corps Re- 
serve of the 1st Corps until Sept. 30. It occupied 
Baulny Ridge until Oct. 1, and was engaged in the 
Argonne-Meuse offensive without relief until Oct. 30, 
longer than any Division in the A.E.F., as later stated 
by General Pershing. The 327th Infantry was the first 
regiment of the Allied Armies to pierce the "Kriem- 
hilde Stellung," which it did near Sommerance, Oct. 11, 
1918. Evacuated Oct. 21, and remained at Base Hos- 
pital 44 at Pougues-les-Eaux, Nievre, until rejoining 
the Regiment at Champlitte, Haute Saone, Nov. 30. 
Transferred to the 307th Ammunition Train as its 
Commanding Officer, March 11. Promoted to Lieu- 
tenant-Colonel Apr. 17, and sailed from Bordeaux Apr. 
26. Landed at Brooklyn May 12, and was honorably 
discharged at Camp Upton, N.Y., May 19, 1919. Re- 
ceived the following decorations : Distinguished Service 
Cross (American) ; Chevalier, Legion d'Honneur 
(French) ; Croix de Guerre with Palm (French). The 
citations follow. 

The Distinguished Service Cross : "For extraordi- 
nary heroism in action during the Meuse-Argonne 
offensive, 7-21 October, 1918. During fourteen days 
of severe fighting, Major Blanchard was constantly on 



30 SAINT MARK'S SCHOOL IN THE 

duty with his battalion, although suffering severely 
with bronchitis, the result of being gassed. He per- 
sonally took command of a company, after all the offi- 
cers had become casualties, and led them through a 
heavy artillery barrage and machine-gun fire, gaining 
his objective. Immediately after his battalion was re- 
lieved he collapsed from the severe strain. 

"The Commanding General takes particular pride 
in announcing to the Command these fine examples 
of courage and self-sacrifice. Such deeds are evidence 
of that spirit of heroism which is innate in the highest 
type of the American soldier and responds unfailingly 
to the call of duty, wherever or whenever it may come. 

"This order will be read to all organizations at the 
first formation after its receipt." 

"Officier qui a tou jours ete un modele de courage et 
d'entrain. Quoique malade, est reste 14 jours a la 
tete de son Bataillon qu'il conduisit a I'assaut de posi- 
tions ennemies tres fortement defendues dont il parvint 
a s'emparer." 



►I^ADDISON LEECH BLISS, 1910. 

Addison Leech Bliss, the son of Chester W. and 
Isadora (Leech) Bliss, was born in Springfield, Massa- 
chusetts, on the twenty-first of November, 1891. After 
attending the Fay School from September, 1901, to 
1904, he entered St. Mark's in the autumn as a member 
of the First Form, with the class of 1910. He was 
active in athletics, and attained success and distinction 
as a member of the eleven for two years, and as a pla3^er 
on the nine for two years and Captain for one. He 




ADDISON LEECH BLISS 



WAR AGAINST GERMANY 31 

was the President of his class, and a monitor. He en- 
tered Harvard with the class of 1914; studied at 
Haverford from the fall of 1911 until the spring of 
1912; and in the fall of the latter year returned to 
Harvard. Upon leaving college in December he went 
to Pittsburgh to enter the employ of the Union Col- 
lieries Company at Ellsworth, Pennsylvania. He was 
there during the development of the mine, and was 
elected a Director. 

At the beginning of the war he felt very strongly 
that he had a duty to perform, and giving up his busi- 
ness temporarily, he enlisted in the American Field Am- 
bulance Service. He sailed for France on the twenty- 
seventh of January, 1917; but soon after his arrival 
in Paris he was stricken with pneumonia, and died at 
the American Hospital at Neuilly on the twenty-second 
of February, 1917. His funeral services were held two 
days later in the American Church at Paris. 

Bliss's record is in one sense a short one, for he was 
not granted the time in which to accomplish the work 
for which he went to France ; but this bare fact, though 
cruel to him, makes little difference to his friends, and 
none in the honor and love in which they hold him. 
Before his country entered the war he left his home 
and his business, volunteered from pure sense of per- 
sonal duty, and died in the service. Such a record 
needs no longer life in which to emphasize it, however 
bitterly his friends may grieve that he could not have 
lived and had his reward. But St. Mark's needs no 
evidence from the war of the stuff that was in Addison 
Bliss : no manlier boy, no simpler, more straightforward 
character ever entered her gates. He made no preten- 
sions, and the existence in the world of such a quality 



32 SAINT MARK'S SCHOOL IN THE 

as affectation must have been unknown to him. His 
strength lay largely in the attributes to which athletics 
especially appeal, and accompanying it and developing 
from it were the pure chivalry, honor, and reliability 
as a friend which have marked the ideal athlete at all 
times and in all places. A brave, steady eye; no ex- 
cuses for failure and no elation at success ; the courtesy 
and toleration which mark the born gentleman that he 
always was : this is Addison Bliss as we knew him'. And 
one thing else, a thing that he may not have been con- 
scious of himself: a heart that knew no object but to 
help those weaker than he. This it was that drew him 
away to France before the call came, to do what he 
could against the kind of wrong that a nature like his 
abhorred the most. He abhorred it because his oAvn 
courage and sportsmanship were without a flaw; and 
as some men leave behind them brave records of achieve- 
ment and success. Bliss leaves the no less precious one 
of a free and perfect sacrifice to his country's ideals. 



vl^ WILLIAM VERNON BOOTH, Jr., 1909. 

William Vernon Booth, Jr., was born in Chicago 
on the eighth of October, 1889, the son of William Ver- 
non Booth and Nellie (Lester) Booth. He entered the 
First Form at St. Mark's from the Fay School in 1903, 
and while here took a distinguished part in athletics, 
playing for two years on the football, hockey and base- 
ball teams, and being made Captain of the baseball 
team in his Sixth Form year. He was a good scholar, 
and was appointed a monitor. He entered Harvard 
in the class of 1913, and upon graduating went to the 




WILLIAM VERNON BOOTH, Jr. 



WAR AGAINST GERMANY 33 

New York Law School. After completing the course 
there he entered the law firm of Piatt and Field. 

On the nineteenth of May he sailed from New York 
for France, where he joined the Lafayette Flying 
Corps. He remained in the French service throughout 
his career, and did not transfer to the American Ex- 
peditionary Force, although a commission in it was 
offered to him. At the time of his last engagement he 
held the rank of Sergeant, and was recommended for a 
lieutenancy. He went to Avord on the thirteenth of 
June, 1917, for training, and finished at Pau on the 
twenty- ninth of November, 1917. From the first week 
in January until his death he was at the front prac- 
tically all the time excepting two weeks in the spring, 
when he had leave, and was married to Miss Ethel 
Forgan, in Paris, on the twenty-seventh of April. After 
their wedding trip to Cannes he returned to the front 
on the fourteenth of May, 1918. On June twenty-fifth, 
while flying over the enemy lines, he was attacked by 
German planes. He and his companions were outnum- 
bered eighteen to five, and a bullet shattered his leg, 
while another set fire to his machine. He fainted, and 
his machine started to fall; but the flames were ex- 
tinguished by the rush of air, and he regained con- 
sciousness sufficiently to right his machine in time to 
effect a landing in No Man's Land. Then, after setting 
fire to his plane to prevent it from falling into enemy 
hands, he dragged himself through No Man's Land un- 
til rescued by a Frenchman, who carried him into the 
French front trenches. He was taken to the Scottish 
Woman's Hospital, at Royaumont, where he died on the 
tenth of July, 1918. He was buried at Royaumont- 
Asnieres-sur-Oise, France. He was decorated with the 



34 SAINT MARK'S SCHOOL IN THE 

Medaille Militaire and the Croix de Guerre with Palm, 
at the hospital on the fourth of July. After his death 
he was given the Legion d'Honneur. The citations 
follow. 

En vertu des pouvoirs qui lui sont conferes par la 
Decision Ministerielle No. 12285K du 8 Aout 1914, le 
General Commandant en Chef a fait, a la date du 27 
juillet 1918, dans I'ordre de la Legion d'Honneur, les 
nominations suivantes, etc. 

En outre, le General Commandant en Chef a con- 
fere la Medaille Militaire aux militaires dont noms sui- 
vants: a la date du 4 juillet 1918, Booth, Vernon, Mle 
41494, active, Sergent en ler Regiment de la Legion 
Etrangere, Pilote Aviateur, Esc. Spa. 96 : 

"Pilote d'un splendide courage. Au cours d'un com- 
bat contre avions a ete grievement blesse, son appareil 
ayant pris feu en I'air, a pu, grace a sa presence 
d'esprit et malgre de fortes brulures eteindre I'incendie 
et atterrir normalement entre les lignes a quarante 
metres des tranchees ennemies, et a regagne les posi- 
tions fran9aises malgre un feu violent de canons et de 
mitrailleuses." 

Les nominations ci-dessus comportent I'attribution 
de la Croix de Guerre avec pahne. 

At school Vernon Booth's physical build could not 
account for his efficiency in athletics and apparent 
immunity from injury. Usually it was he who at a 
decisive point in a contest, and often a discouraging 
point, applied that extra ounce of fight which neither 
he nor his companions knew existed in the team, and 
which won victory or staved off defeat. The spirit, 
stronger than the body and stronger than pain, was 



WAR AGAINST GERMANY 35 

beyond all estimate and check ; the ordinary measures 
of morale and courage could not explain it, for the 
greater the need, the more surely he met it. And in the 
class-room, shy, quiet and observant, with shining 
eyes, he made and maintained high rank without the 
self-complacency which so often attends it, assimilating 
as he learned. In his letters from France we see both 
sides of his character focussed into the soldier, who 
studied and worked at his dangerous flying almost to 
the point of exhaustion, would not leave his decimated 
French comrades, regarded hardship and incessant 
danger as simply part of his day's work, and when at 
last attacked by overwhelming numbers, wounded and 
fainting in mid-air, somehow extricated himself from 
destruction, balked his enemies, and entered dying into 
his own lines. The spirit of Vernon Booth, as un- 
touched and strong during the terrible days at the 
hospital as when fighting under the open sky, is not a 
thing that can be known or estimated; but those who 
have seen it know that it is deathless, and are proud 
and thankful that we can claim as one of us this soldier 
who could never be conquered. 

Loyalty, consummate manliness, sweet friendship, 
and a kindness that could never say or think an unpleas- 
ant thing of others were what he gave to his school 
before he gave his all to his country ; and he gave them 
as he gave his life, because his ideal was to serve. 



WILLIAM GRAIN BOWERS, 2nd, 1906. 

Entered the service of Company D, 2nd Conn. 
Infantry, N.G., May 20, 1917. Sailed for France 



36 SAINT MARK'S SCHOOL IN THE 

Sept. 5. Transferred to the 101st S.C. Battalion as a 
Private, Dec. 3, and made Sergeant of the 1st Class, 
S.C, Feb. 16, 1918. Commissioned 2nd Lieutenant of 
Infantry, U.S.A., Sept. 25. Took part in the following 
battles : Seicheprey, Bois Brule, Chemin des Dames, 
Marne defensive, and Chateau-Thierry offensive. 
Gassed slightly twice and wounded once. Landed in 
the U.S. Nov. 28, 1919. 



JAMES HENRY HOWE BRADFORD, 1916. 

Enlisted in aviation, and started training at the 
Princeton Ground School, but was honorably dis- 
charged after a month's time as being unqualified for 
that branch of the service. Enlisted Aug. 7, 1918, in 
the Marine Corps. Took all preliminary training at 
Paris Island, S.C, was transferred to an overseas 
company, and went to Quantico, Va., the Overseas De- 
pot of the Marines, and awaited orders to sail. With 
the Company two weeks awaiting the outcome of the 
armistice, and when it was signed, and the chances of 
going across were gone, made application for dis- 
charge. Honorably discharged Jan. 13, 1919. 



JOHN HENRY BRADFORD, 1916. 

Joined the A.R.C Nov. 4, 1918. Sent to Camp 
Merritt for ten da3^s ; then to Debarkation Hospital 
No. 3, of 4000 beds, and remained there until May 20, 
1919. 



WAR AGAINST GERMANY 37 

WILLIAM BRADFORD, 1918. 
[Does not answer. Attended the Yale S.A.T.C.] 

FREDERICK JOSIAH BRADLEE, Jr., 1911. 

Attended the Provisional O.T.S. at Fort Leaven- 
worth, Kan., from Nov. 22, 1917, to Feb. 26, 1918. 
Commissioned Provisional 2nd Lieutenant, U.S. Regu- 
lar Army, in Feb., 1918, and assigned to the 22nd U.S. 
Infantry. Stationed at Governor's Island, N.Y., and 
East Potomac Park, Washington, D.C. Resignation 
accepted in Dec, 1918. 

MALCOLM BRADLEE, 1918. 

Enlisted in Oct., 1918, in the Harvard Marine 
Unit. Discharged in Dec, 1918. 

THOMAS STEVENSON BRADLEE, 1886. 

Major, Q.M.C, Reserve of Officers, Jan. 5, 1917. 
Ordered to active service Apr. 26. Lieutenant-Colonel, 
Q.M.C, U.S. Army, Oct. 17, 1918. Honorably dis- 
charged March 17, 1919. 

CHARLES BURNET BRADLEY, 1900. 

In Jan., 1918, entered the Office of Naval Intelli- 
gence, Navy Department, Washington, D.C, as a Civil- 



38 SAINT MARK'S SCHOOL IN THE 

ian Employee. Apr. 12, commissioned Lieutenant 
(j.g.), U.S.N.R.F., and ordered to the Office of Naval 
Intelligence. Remained there until ordered to Rome, 
Italy, as Assistant Naval Attache, Sept. 10, 1918. 
Arrived and took up duties in Rome Oct. 16. These 
duties led to various parts of Italy, but headquarters 
were at Rome. July 6, 1919, detached, ordered home, 
and relieved of all active duty on arrival, Aug. 17, 
1919. 



FRANCIS BARLOW BRADLEY, 1915. 

Enlisted Apr. 8, 1917, in the U.S.N.R.F., and was 
assigned to duty as a Seaman aboard U.S.S. Harvard, 
a converted yacht. Arrived at Brest, France, July 4, 
and was promoted to Coxswain during the summer of 
1917, and to Boatswain's Mate of the 2nd class in the 
following spring. The duty of the Harvard was, at 
first, to patrol the Bay of Biscay for submarines, and 
later to act as convoy for Allied shipping from Wolf 
Rock, England, to Bordeaux, France. Detached from 
U.S.S. Harvard in July, 1918, and ordered to Roche- 
fort to report for examination for Ensign, but was de- 
clared physically unfit. Then ordered aboard the 
Martlie Solange, a French station-ship anchored at 
the mouth of the Gironde River, and remained there 
from July, 1918, to March, 1919, as Liaison Officer 
between the French Commandant of the 6th French 
Patrol Squadron and the U.S. District Commander's 
office at Rochefort. In Sept., appointed Chief Quar- 
termaster. In March, 1919, detached and ordered to 
Bordeaux to be Chief Non-commissioned Officer of 



WAR AGAINST GERMANY 39 

Operations. After a severe illness, sailed from Bor- 
deaux Apr. 20, 1919, and was discharged from active 
service May 9, 1919. 



ROBERT BALLANTINE BRADLEY, 1904. 

Served with the 1st N.J. Squadron of Cavalry as a 
Private during the border trouble in Arizona, in 1916. 
Discharged in March, 1917, to receive commission. 
Went to the 1st Fort Myer O.T.C., and was there com- 
missioned a 2nd Lieutenant, and assigned to the Depot 
Brigade, 80th Division, Camp Lee, Va. In Dec, 1917, 
transferred to the 313th M.G. Battalion, Company C 
(Captain John Kean, a St. Mark's graduate, com- 
manding). Dec. 31, promoted to 1st Lieutenant, and 
became Adjutant about Feb., 1918. Went overseas 
with the 80th Division as above, and stayed with this 
unit as Adjutant until all were discharged at Camp 
Dix, June 12, 1919. Promoted to Captain in March, 
1919. Took part in the following battles : south of 
Arras, with the New Zealanders, Couin, Gommecourt, 
Hebuterne, Serre Ridge, July-Aug., 1918, the Somme 
offensive; Meuse-Argonne, Sept. 26-Nov. 8, Cuisy, 
Septsarges ; Montf aucon, Fayel Farm, Nantillois, 
Cunel, Bois des Ogons, St. Juvin, Imecourt, Sivry, 
Buzancy, Sommauthe. 



WILLIAM MACY BREWSTER, Ex-1910. 

Commissioned Captain in the U. S. Army, and at- 
tached to the Intelligence Division, General Staff, 



40 SAINT MARK'S SCHOOL IN THE 

Washington, May 13, 1918. Appointed American 
Military Attache on the Staff of General Sir Edmund 
H. H. Allenby, now Field Marshal Lord Allenby, Com- 
mander-in-Chief of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force 
in Palestine in June, 1918. Reached Palestine in the 
middle of July, 1918, and participated throughout 
General Allenby's offensive, which started Sept. 19 and 
ended with the capture of Aleppo Oct. 21, and which 
forced Turkey to sign the armistice. Ordered to 
Cairo after the armistice, and there remained as Ameri- 
can Military Attache at the American Diplomatic 
Agency until June 25, when relieved and ordered to 
Washington. Received discharge from the army July 
19, 1919. Was awarded the British General Service 
Medal by General Allenby. Auxiliary service: ap- 
pointed by the Secretary of State American Consular 
Agent in Syria in 1915, and remained as such during 
the entire period of the Armenian massacres, until 
ordered home in 1917 at the time of the entrance of the 
U.S. into the war. This period was spent in taking 
care of Allied interests, and in endeavoring, as far as 
the Turks would permit, to distribute relief among the 
Armenians from funds raised and transmitted from 
the U.S. 

FRANCIS BROOKS, 1911. 

Enlisted Apr. 5, 1917, as a Seaman in the U.S.N.R. 
at the Charlestown Navy Yard, and did service on a 
submarine-chaser for six months. Received commis- 
sion as Ensign, U.S.N.R.F., Sept. 20, 1917. Took the 
four months' intensive course at Annapolis, Md., and 
received a commission as Ensign in the U.S.N. Feb. 1, 



WAR AGAINST GERMANY 41 

1918. Did service for two months and a half on 
U.S.S. Maine, and was then transferred to U.S.S. 
Shawmut. Laid the North Sea mine barrage during 
the summer of 1918 with Mine Squadron 1. Trans- 
ferred to U.S.S. Canonicus, another mine layer, and 
returned to the U.S. after seven months' service in the 
North Sea. Transferred to U.S.S. Robinson, a de- 
stroyer, which acted as a station ship in the trans- 
atlantic flight. Received commission as Lieutenant 
(j.g), U.S.N. , Oct. 20, 1918, and was discharged from 
the U.S.N. June 1, 1919. 



CHARLES EDWARD BROWN, Jr., 1913. 

Enlisted as a Private of the 1st class, in the 
S.E.R.C, June 27, 1917. Sailed for England Sept. 15 
as a Cadet in the Aviation Section, S.E.R.C. Trained 
with the R.A.F., England, (attached), from Oct. 1 to 
July 1, 1918. Commissioned 1st Lieutenant in the 
A.S., U.S. Army, May 30, 1918. Trained further and 
awaited assignment from July 1 to Aug 7, and was then 
sent to A.S. Production Centre No. 2, Romorantin, 
France. Served there as Ferry Pilot until Dec. 25. 
Arrived in the U.S.A. Feb. 5, 1919. Discharged Feb. 
8, 1919. 



BELMORE HASKELL BROWNE, 1898. 

Commissioned Captain in the Airplane Spruce Air- 
craft Production May 14, 1918, and ordered to Van- 
couver Barracks, Washington. Assigned to the 1st 



42 SAINT MARK'S SCHOOL IN THE 

Provisional Regiment, May 24 ; made Treasurer of the 
Loyal Legion of Loggers and Lumbermen, June 12 ; 
Disciplinary Officer, Vancouver Barracks Officers' 
School, Sept. 1 ; and Instructor in Military Map Mak- 
ing Oct. 1. Commanding Officer, 116th Squadron, from 
Oct. 31 to Dec. 7. Discharged Dec. 11, 1918. 



GEORGE ALBERT BROWNE, 1894. 

Chief Engineer of the Naval Militia of the State 
of Washington when the U.S. declared war upon Ger- 
many, and immediately enrolled in the U.S. Navy as 
an Engineer Officer. At that time, held the rank of 
Lieutenant. During the first month of service with 
the Navy, took part in the repairs of an interned Ger- 
man ship of the Hamburg- American Line, the Saxonia. 
Then ordered to U.S.S. San Diego, and joined her at 
San Diego, Cal., July 13, 1917, as 1st Assistant Engi- 
neer Officer. From San Diego sailed to New York via 
the Panama Canal. Cruised for some weeks off the 
Atlantic coast, and subsequently convoyed troopships 
to France. Detached from U.S.S. San Diego in New 
York Oct. 16, and Oct. 18 was ordered to Brest, 
France, via Liverpool and London. Reported to the 
Commander of the U.S. Forces in France Nov. 12, and 
was ordered to report to Commander H. C. Dinger, 
LT.S.N., as his Assistant. Relieved Commander Dinger 
in Jan., 1918, as Repair Officer ashore at Brest. From 
this time until Apr., 1919, had charge of all repairs 
ashore done for the American fleet at this base. Also 
acted as Liaison Officer for the French in all matters 
pertaining to engineering, discussions, consultations, 



WAR AGAINST GERMANY 43 

etc. In Apr., 1919, requested to be ordered to U.S.S. 
Westhridge as Chief Engineer. This ship had received 
two torpedoes simultaneously. In addition to duties 
as Chief Engineer of the vessel, had entire charge of 
her repairs. On completion of the repairs, was ordered 
home and put on inactive duty Sept. 2, 1919. Still a 
Lieutenant. [Dec, 1919.] Received from the French 
Government the decoration of the Legion d'Honneur. 



EDWARD SOHIER BRYANT, 1902. 

From May 14 to June 20, 1917, Candidate for a 
commission at the R.O.T.C., Plattsburg, N.Y. ; from 
June 21 to July 14, Candidate at the Engineer O.T.C., 
Camp American University, Washington, D.C. ; and 
from July 14 to Sept. 9, Captain, Regimental Supply 
Officer, Tenth Engineers (Forest), Camp American 
University. Sept. 10, 1917, sailed for France from 
New York on S.S. Carpathian Oct. 2 arrived at Glas- 
gow; Oct. 8 arrived at Le Havre; and from Oct. 18 to 
Nov. 20 was stationed at Nevers. From Nov. 20 to 
Feb. 28, 1918, stationed at Gievres, and then relieved 
as Regimental Supply Officer. March 1, 1918, District 
Acquisition of Timber Officer at Besan9on, Doubs, 
under Major Chapman, 2nd Battalion, 10th Engineers, 
until relieved about Aug. 20. From Aug, 20 to Nov. 
4 Acquisition of Timber Officer, 1st Army, reporting to 
the Chief Engineer, 1st Army, in the St. Mihiel and 
Argonne drives. From Nov. 4 to Feb. 13, 1919, Dis- 
trict Acquisition of Timber Officer under Major Spen- 
cer, 20th Engineers, at Eclaron, and, for the last few 
days, at St. Dizier, Haute Marne. From Feb. 14 to 



44 SAINT MARK'S SCHOOL IN THE 

Feb. 19, 1919, under Lieutenant-Colonel Chapman, 
20th Engineers, Paris, Peace Commission, Damage to 
Allied Countries, — Forests. Feb. 20 ordered to Hq., 
20th Engineers, Tours, and from Feb. 22 to March 11 
was on leave in Tours, Paris and England. March 16, 
at Casual Knotty Ash Camp, Liverpool; March 20, 
commanding Liverpool Casual Company 1017, sailed 
on S.S. Aquitania, via Brest; and March 30 arrived at 
New York and Camp Merritt. Discharged as Captain 
of Engineers at Camp Devens, Mass., Apr. 10, 1919. 

KENNETH PEPPERRELL BUDD, 1898. 

Commissioned Captain of Infantry Apr. 30, 1917, 
and ordered to duty May 9 as Assistant Instructor, 
7th Company, N.Y. Regiment, O.T.C., Plattsburg, 
N.Y. Assigned to the 308th Infantry, 77th Division, 
Aug. 29. Commissioned Major of Infantry Jan. 1, 

1918, in command of the 2nd Battalion, 308th Infan- 
try. Sailed from New York Apr. 6, in command of 
this battalion and of all troops on S.S. Cretic. Landed 
at Liverpool Apr. 20, and at Calais Apr. 21. Trained 
and remained in reserve with the British in Flanders. 
Took part in the following actions: Baccarat sector 
(Vosges) ; Oise-Aisne offensive (the Vesle) ; Argonne 
(Meuse offensive). Was gassed at Villesavoye (the 
Vesle), Aug. 18. Graduated from the Army General 
Staff College, Langres, Jan. 1, 1919. Was awarded 
the Distinguished Service Cross March 1, 1919, the 
Croix de Guerre (with Palm), an Army citation Apr. 
13, 1919 ; and the Legion d'Honneur, Chevalier, May 5, 

1919. Honorably discharged Feb. 13, 1919. The 
citation for the Distinguished Service Cross follows. 



WAR AGAINST GERMANY 45 

"For extraordinary heroism near Villesavoye, 
France, August 16, 1918. Although Major Budd's 
post of command was subject to continuous and con- 
centrated gas attacks, and despite the fact that he 
was severely gassed during the bombardment, he re- 
fused to be evacuated, remaining for three days to 
superintend personally the relief of his battalion and 
the removal to the rear of the men who had been 
gassed." 



►{^WILLIAM MORTON BUNTING, 1901. 

William Morton Bunting, son of the late Colonel 
William Morton and Mary (Alexander) Bunting, was 
born in Philadelphia on the ninth of October, 1882. 
He attended the Prince School, in Boston, and entered 
St. Mark's in the Third Form in 1897. He played for 
two years on the football team, and in his last year was 
a monitor. He entered Harvard with the class of 1905, 
and upon graduating joined the Penn Mutual Life In- 
surance Company, at the office in Boston of Plympton 
and Bunting, General Managers, of which firm his 
father was a partner. On September the twenty-fifth, 
1907, he married Miss Alice Mary Nelson, of Maiden. 
In January, 1910, he was admitted to partnership in 
his father's firm, and in February, 1912, at the death 
of his father, who was the surviving partner, he be- 
came General Manager for the Company in Massachu- 
setts. In 1915 he admitted Clarence C. Miller to part- 
nership, and they conducted the business together under 
the firm name of Plj'mpton and Bunting. 

He enlisted in the Coast Artillery, at Boston, on the 



46 SAINT MARK'S SCHOOL IN THE 

sixth of December, 1917. He was appointed Battalion 
Sergeant-Ma j or, and transferred to the Insurance De- 
partment, Northeast Department, Boston. On May 
the twenty-second, 1918, he was commissioned First 
Lieutenant in the National Army, and appointed As- 
sistant Insurance Officer, Northeast Department, Bos- 
ton. He was commissioned Captain on the twentieth of 
August and transferred to Camp Devens, where he was 
attached to the Twelfth Division as Personnel Officer. 
He died of pneumonia at Camp Devens on the twenty- 
eighth of September, 1918. His wife and four chil- 
dren survive him. 

Bunting's development into the finest type of business 
man, who conserves his ideals of uprightness and com- 
munity spirit untarnished, were clearly prophesied by 
his career at school. Unostentatious and industrious, 
unvarying in disposition, he discharged his duties and 
graced his honors with fidelity and dignity, regarding 
them as parts of a whole in which all were equally in- 
terested and responsible. But this sense of corporate 
responsibility was tempered with a ready kindness 
which made him tolerant and lenient towards others, 
and an invaluable and unselfish friend. His own solid 
abilities set him in a position to be of service to others ; 
and of this service he was prodigal to a degree not 
known to any but his intimate friends, because with 
him generosity seemed to be a matter of course. It 
is not hard, therefore, to picture the quality of his 
service at his country's call for war, nor to imagine 
what it would have been if a longer life of usefulness 
had been granted him. He was preeminently one of 
those who dignify and strengthen the work to which 
they are called, and leave the community the better 




WILLIAM MORTON BUNTING 



WAR AGAINST GERMANY 47 

for their efforts and the world kindlier because they 
lived in it. But the number of his friends, and their 
grief at his untimely death, testify even better than his 
life and his work to the loss which the School has suf- 
fered in Morton Bunting. 



WILLIAM ALVORD BURKE, 1904. 

Enrolled in the U.S.N.R.F. Apr. 19, 1917, as a 

Seaman of the 2nd class. Went on active duty on 
U.S.S. Tarantula (S.P. 124) May 1. At the U.S. 
Naval Training Camp, Pelham Bay, N.Y. Gunner, 
Feb. 23, 1918. Released from active duty at Pelham, 
Apr. 3, 1919. While at Pelham, served as Ordnance 
Officer of the Camp part of the time, and also an In- 
structor in the O.T.S. 



FRANCIS LOWELL BURNETT, Ex-1896. 

Enrolled as Lieutenant (j.g.) in the Med. C, 
U.S.N.R.F., July 11, 1918. July 31 received orders 
to report for duty to the Commandant of the 1st 
Naval District ; was sworn in Aug. 3, and ordered to 
the U.S. Naval Hospital, Chelsea, Mass. Assigned 
there the next day to the Laboratory of the Hospital. 
The work consisted largely of examining specimens. 
Had an opportunity to study the pathology of in- 
fluenza, and reported investigations. Several weeks 
after the armistice was declared, applied for release 
from active duty, and received papers Jan. 21, 1919. 



48 SAINT MARK'S SCHOOL IN THE 
HARRY BURNETT, 2nd, 1911. 

Entered the Plattsburg O.T.C. May 14, 1917, and 
was commissioned 2nd Lieutenant in the U.S. Army 
Aug. 15. Assigned to Camp Devens Aug. 29, 1917, 
and received first drafted man at Camp Devens. Ap- 
pointed Aide-de-Camp to Brigadier General Weigel, 
Oct. 22; promoted to 1st Lieutenant, U.S. Army, Dec. 
31 ; and was ordered to the 28th Division (Penn. 
N.G.), March 23, 1918. Sailed from New York May 
5 ; landed in England May 12, and in France May 13. 
Went into training with British and French divisions 
from May 17 to July 2. In action with the 28th Di- 
vision in the following major operations: Champagne- 
Marne defensive; Marne-Aisne offensive; Aisne-Oise 
offensive. Received two citations. Transferred to 
the 88th Division Sept. 7 ; occupied the trench sector. 
Haute Alsace, Oct. 12. Promoted to Captain of In- 
fantry, U.S.A., Nov. 12. Sailed from St. Nazaire on 
U.S.S. Pocahontas May 22, 1919; landed at Newport 
News June 1 ; was ordered to Camp Dodge, la., June 5 ; 
relieved as Aide-de-Camp to Major-General William 
Weigel June 14; and discharged from the U.S. Army 
June 19, 1919. The citations follow. 

"On August 20, 1918, at Montaon Farm, France, 
Captain Burnett being on duty as A.D.C. to G.G. 56 
Infantry Brigade, 28th Division A.E.F., while under 
heavy artillery bombardment with entire disregard to 
his personal safety, did see that the men of the de- 
tachment were sent to cover and did carry two badly 
wounded men to safety ; and remained on duty in the 
open directing runners and signal men to safety." 



WAR AGAINST GERMANY 49 

"On September 6, 1918, near Villette, France, Cap- 
tain Burnett did deliver extremely important messages 
to the forward elements of the 111th Infantry operating 
across the Vesle River, northeast of Villette, at a time 
when the area was so badly shelled that it was neces- 
sary to use a number of side cars with duplicate mess- 
ages in order to insure one message getting through." 



JOHN GREEN BURR, 1910. 

Officer in the Regular Army, with the 5th F.A., 
when war was declared. June 13, 1917, assigned to 
the 13th F.A., and served with this regiment as part 
of the 4th F.A. Brigade, 4th Division (Reg.) through- 
out. Left the U. S. Apr. 30, 1918, and arrived in 
France May 12. Returning, left France July 18, 
1919, and reached the U. S. July 31. Took part in 
the following battles : Aisne-Marne offensive, Aug. 1-7 ; 
Vesle sector, Aug. 7-17 ; St. Mihiel offensive, Sept. 
12-15; Meuse-Argonne offensive, Sept. 24-Nov. 11, 
1918. Rank was as follows : 1st Lieutenant, May 31, 
1916; Captain, May 15, 1917; Major, July 6, 1918. 
Recommended for Lieutenant-Colonel, Nov. 10, 1918. 
Still in service. [Dec, 1919.] 

ROBERT PAGE BURR, 1916. 

Enlisted Apr. 2, 1917, in the U.S.N.R. as Gunner's 
Mate of the 3rd class, and served until Sept. 2. Then 
transferred to the U.S. Naval Intelligence Service, and 
served until March 22, 1918, when discharged as physi- 
cally unfit for active duty on account of eyesight. En- 



50 SAINT MARK'S SCHOOL IN THE 

listed Apr. 4 as a Private in the British Army, and was 
sent to Nova Scotia. There promoted as follows : 
Corporal, Sergeant, and Company Sergeant-Ma j or. 
Sent to England July 11, 1918, as Company Sergeant- 
Major. Served in the Inns of Court O.T.C. at Berk- 
hamsted, Hertfordshire, until Jan. 9, 1919. Then 
transferred to the Officers' Cadet Battalion No. 11. Re- 
leased Feb. 8, 1919, as 2nd Lieutenant, Infantry, Gen- 
eral List. 

WILLIAM EDWARD BURR, 1908. 

Graduated from West Point in 1914, and was com- 
missioned 2nd Lieutenant, F.A., June 12, 1914*. Pro- 
moted to 1st Lieutenant, F.A., in Oct., 1916; to Cap- 
tain, F.A., in May, 1917; to Major, F.A., in July, 
1918; and to Lieutenant-Colonel, F.A., in May, 1919. 
Sailed overseas with the 2nd Division, 17th F.A., in 
Dec, 1917, and trained with the Regiment at Valda- 
hon, France, from Jan. to March, 1918. Served as 
Regimental Adjutant with the Regiment on the follow- 
ing fronts: Verdun, March 15 to May 12, 1918; Cha- 
teau-Thierry (Belleau Woods, Vaux, etc.), June 1 to 
July 9, 1918. Transferred July 9 to the 2nd F.A. 
Brigade Hq. as Adjutant (2nd Division). Served in 
that capacity until the Division returned home in Aug., 
1919, and on the following fronts : Soissons, July 18 
to 25, 1918; Marbache sector (north of Nancy) Aug. 
8 to 21; St. Mihiel offensive, Sept. 12 to 22; Cham- 
pagne (Blanc Mont), Oct. 1 to 27 ; Meuse-Argonne, 
Nov. 1 to 11 ; march to the Rhine, Nov. 18 to Dec. 13; 
Army of Occupation, Dec. 13 to July 20, 1919. En- 
tire service was in the 17th F.A. and 2nd F.A. Brigade 



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Hq. Served with the 2nd Division, and participated 
in all its engagements. Was awarded the Croix de 
Guerre (Army Corps citation) for service in the Blanc 
Mont attack, Oct. 2 to 8, 1918; cited by the Command- 
ing General, A.E.F., for service with the 17th F.A., 
and by the Commanding General of the 2nd Division 
for service with the 2nd F.A. Brigade at St. Mihiel; 
and awarded the decoration of Chevalier of the Legion 
of Honor. The citations follow. 

"Le 3 octobre, 1918, a Blanc Mont, a fait preuve 
d'un zele infatigable dans I'organization des details de 
la preparation et de I'appui fournis par I'artillerie. 
Ses services ont coopere a I'obtention de la victoire des 
3 octobre et jour suivants. Son exemple fut un stimu- 
lant pour tout son entourage." 

"This officer rendered energetic and efficient service 
prior to and during the attack at St. Mihiel. He was 
untiring in his work in the preparation of the plans for 
the artillery support and rendered valuable services 
during the attack." 

The decoration of the Legion of Honor was awarded 
"for distinguished and exceptional gallantry at Blanc 
Mont, France, on October 6, 1918, in the operations of 
the American Expeditionary Forces." 



WINTHROP BURR, Jr., 1914. 

In the U.S.N.R. from Apr. to Aug., 1917, but was 
discharged because of poor eyesight. In the 1st or 
Grenadier Regiment of Foot Guards, B.E.F., May, 
1918, to Feb., 1919, with rank of Guardsman. Sta- 
tioned in London. 



52 SAINT MARK'S SCHOOL IN THE 



CRAWFORD BURTON, 1904. 

Made 1st Lieutenant in the Ordnance Department 
in Sept., 1917. Sailed for France March 26, 1918. Pro- 
moted to Captain Feb. 17, 1919. Sailed for home 
March 20, 1919, and was discharged from the service 
in Apr. 



FRANK VINCENT BURTON, Jr., 1910. 

Enlisted in Squadron A, N.Y., May 7, 1917, as a 
Private. Transferred to the Ammunition Train, 27th 
Division, in Aug., 1917, and promoted to Sergeant in 
Sept. Transferred to the Field Ordnance in Feb., 1918, 
as a Private, and promoted to Sergeant of the 1st 
Class in May. Went overseas May 26. Served with 
the Ammunition Depots in France, and in Aviation. 
Service in France, eleven months. Arrived in New 
York Apr. 26, 1919. 



VAN DUZER BURTON, 1915. 

Beginning Jan. 12, 1917, served six months in the 
A.F.S., sections 13 and 8. March 12, 1918, entered 
the Foreign Legion as a Private, attached to the 32nd 
Regiment d'Artillerie, and was sent to the Artillery 
School at Fontainebleau. Graduated July 11 as an 
Aspirant. Sent to the 13th Regiment d'Artillerie 
Groupe a cheval. Wounded Oct. 25, at Bethancourt. 
Invalided home in Dec. Returned to the Regiment in 



WAR AGAINST GERMANY 53 

March, 1919 ; was promoted to Sous-Lieutenant, March 
15 ; and was discharged Aug. 22, 1919. Received the 
Croix de Guerre (ordre de la Division) ; Croix de 
Guerre (ordre de I'Armee) ; and the Medaille Militaire. 
The citation for the last follows. 

"Ancien Officier de I'Armee federale des Etats Unis, 
engage pour la duree de la Guerre. Fait preuve d'un 
allant et d'un courage exceptionnels. Blesse grievement 
le 25 octobre 1918 ne s'est laisse soigner qu' apres 
plusieurs hommes blesses en meme temps que lui; ne 
voulait pas etre evacue. A fait preuve d'autant de 
mepris pour la souffrance que pour le danger." 



SAMUEL DACRE BUSH, 2nd, 1905. 

Entered the F.A. training school at Louisville, Ky., 
in Oct., 1918, as a Candidate for an officer's commis- 
sion. Discharged Dec. 1, 1918. 



CHARLES STEWART BUTLER, 1895. 

Attended the 2nd Plattsburg Camp in 1917, and 
graduated with a recommendation for lieutenancy in 
the Q.M.C. Before obtaining this commission, had an 
opportunity for immediate service abroad in the 
Y.M.C.A., and sailed for Bordeaux Jan. 10, 1918. 
Served in France with the 1st Division, Hq. Company 
of the 26th Infantry, from about Feb. 1 to Aug. 1. 
Was then put in charge of the Officers' Y.M.C.A. Club 
in Toul, Lorraine, and remained there until about Dec. 



54 SAINT MARK'S SCHOOL IN THE 

16, 1918. Then applied for leave to return to the U.S., 
and arrived in New York Jan. 7, 1919. 



MORGAN BUTLER, 1908. 

Commissioned 1st Lieutenant in the Ordnance De- 
partment Aug. 22, 1917, and ordered to report for 
active duty with the American Ordnance Base Depot in 
France, then organizing at Washington, Sept. 22. 
Sent after a few weeks to Rock Island Arsenal ; thence 
on recruiting service ; thence on a board of officers to 
examine recruits at various camps in the West and 
South ; and thence to the duty of organizing and train- 
ing ordnance units at camps in the South. March 25, 
transferred to the S.C., Aviation Section; attached to 
the textile section; and put in charge of experimental 
and development work in textiles for the A.S. Upon 
the organization of the Engineering Division, was com- 
missioned Captain, put in charge of textile engineering 
for the A.S., with headquarters at Dayton, O., and was 
serving in that capacity when discharged. 



SAMUEL CABOT, 1902. 

Entered the O.T.C., Plattsburg Barrack, N.Y., 
May 12, 1917. Commissioned 1st Lieutenant of In- 
fantry, May 26, and Captain of Infantry Aug. 15, at 
the expiration of camp. Assigned to the 151st Depot 
Brigade, Sept. 1, 1917. Promoted to Major of In- 
fantry Dec. 30. Transferred to the 303rd Infantry 
May 15, 1918, and sailed for France July 5. Sent to 



WAR AGAINST GERMANY 55 

the School of the Line (short course), Nov. 13. Trans- 
ferred to the 106th Infantry Dec. 10. Arrived in the 
U.S. March 4, 1919, and was discharged Apr. 30. 



JOHN CHRISTIE CALDWELL, 1912. 

Enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps May 11, 1917, 
as a Private. In Oct. appointed 2nd Lieutenant in 
the U.S. Marine Corps, Flying Corps, and was Instruc- 
tor in elementary flying, acrobatics, bombing and gun- 
nery. In 1918, Lieutenant, U.S. Marine Corps. In- 
structor in cloud flying and officer in charge of Cadets 
at the Marine Flying Field, Miami, Fla. Placed on 
inactive duty March 12, 1919. 



FREDERIC ALMY CAMMANN, 1919. 

Entered the S.A.T.C. at Columbia University, Oct. 
3, 1918. Rank, Private. Honorably discharged Dec. 
11, 1918. 



PHILIP GALLATIN CAMMANN, 1914. 

At the Plattsburg Training Camp from Aug. to 
Nov., 1917 ; commissioned 2nd Lieutenant of Infantry, 
U.S.R., Nov. 27 ; assigned to Company C, 102nd M.G. 
Battalion, March 29, 1918; assigned to M.G. Com- 
pany, 102nd Infantry, Aug. 27; commissioned 1st 
Lieutenant of Infantry Oct. 24; assigned as Assistant 
in the Inspector General's Department, Base Section 6, 



56 SAINT MARK'S SCHOOL IN THE 

in March, 1919. Honorably discharged Aug. 7, 1919. 
Took part in the following major engagements: Aisne- 
Marne offensive, July 18-24; St. Mihiel offensive, Sept. 
12-16 ; Meuse-Argonne offensive, Oct. 23-Nov. 11, 1918. 



GEORGE COLKET CANER, 1913. 

Enlisted in the Norton-Harjes Volunteer Ambu- 
lance Service, March 15, 1917, and served with Sec- 
tion 11 until Sept. 15. Commissioned 2nd Lieutenant, 
F.A., U.S.R., Nov. 30. Assigned to the 146th F.A. 
in Apr., 1918. In action in the Chateau-Thierry sector 
from July 10 to Aug. 15, 1918. Ordered to the U.S., 
for assignment to a new division, Aug. 30, 1918, and 
assigned to the 33rd F.A. Oct. 3, and commissioned 
1st Lieutenant, F.A.U.S.A. Discharged from the ser- 
vice Dec. 12, 1918. 



GERALD WAYNE CANER, 1917. 

Attended the S.A.T.C. at Cambridge, Mass., from 
Oct. 22 to Dec. 12, 1918. Rank, Private. 



WILLIAM JOHN CANER, 1915. 

Enlisted and went into active service as Quarter- 
master of the 3rd class in the U.S.N.R.F. at Newport, 
March 27, 1917. Went to Block Island Sept. 1. Com- 
missioned as Ensign, U.S.N.R.F., Jan. 17, 1918, and 



WAR AGAINST GERMANY 57 

stationed at Newport. Transferred to Washington as 
Communication Officer Feb. 3, and March 3 transferred 
again and made Officer Messenger. Sept. 3, transferred 
to New London and stationed at the U.S. Experimental 
Station in the Test Department. Oct. 15, transferred 
to the U.S. Naval Station at New London, attached to 
the Hydrophone School. Put on inactive duty Dec. 17, 
1918. Served on the following patrol boats: U.S.S. 
S.P.4.; U.S.S. Vision; U.S.S. S.P.212. 



HENRY CARTER, 1912. 

At the Plattsburg O.T.C. from May to Aug., 1917. 
Commissioned 2nd Lieutenant, F.A.,R.C., Aug. 15 ; 
Personnel Officer, 303rd F.A. from Aug., 1917, to Feb., 
1918. Commissioned 1st Lieutenant F.A., N.A., Dec. 
31, 1917. At the School for Aerial Observers, Fort 
Sill, Okla., from Feb. to May, 1918; the A.S. Concen- 
tration, Camp Dick, Dallas, Tex., from May to July; 
276th Aero Squadron (Aeroplane observer), Camp 
Jackson, S.C, from July to Aug. Landed at Brest, 
France, Sept. 12 ; F.A. Replacement, Le Courneau, 
France in Sept. A.S. Replacement, St. Maixent, 
France, in Oct., 1918; 2nd Corps, Aviation School, 
Chatillon-sur-Seine, in Nov. ; 354th Aero Squadron, 
Saiserais, France, in Dec, 1918. Personnel Officer, 2nd 
Army A.S., Toul, from Jan. to May, 1919. 9th A.S. 
Casual Co., Colombey-les-Belles, in May. G-5 (Ath- 
letics), Inter-Allied Games, Paris, June-July. Re- 
turned to the U.S. Aug. 18. Honorably discharged at 
Garden City, L.I., as 1st Lieutenant, A.S., Sept. 4, 
1919. 



58 SAINT MARK'S SCHOOL IN THE 

JOHN CASWELL, 1891. 

With the American Ambulance in France in 1915, 
and Major in the Ordnance Department, U.S.A., in 
France, 1917-1918. 



JOHN CASWELL, Jr., 1916. 

Entered C Company, 1st Corps of Cadets, Mass. 
N.G., as a Private, Jan. 9, 1917, and went on active 
state recruiting duty March 25. Made Corporal in 
the same company and corps Apr. 12; Corporal in C 
Company, 1st Mass. Engineers, Mass. N.G., May 22; 
Sergeant in the same, July 11 ; Supply Sergeant in 
the same, July 24; and was discharged from the Mass. 
N.G. Aug. 4. Mustered into the Federal service 
Aug. 5; made Supply Sergeant, Hq. 1st Mass. Engi- 
neers, Aug. 18, and the same, Hq. 101st Engineers, 
Aug. 22. Made Ordnance Sergeant, Ordnance Depart- 
ment, N.A., assigned to the 101st Engineers, Sept. 17, 
and left the U.S. for overseas service Sept. 25. West 
Point Candidate at Langres, France, Oct. 11, 1918, and 
Candidate, 2nd Army Infantry Candidate School at La 
Valbonne, France, Nov. 6. Discharged as enlisted man 
March 21, 1919, at Ecommoy, France, and commis- 
sioned March 22 as 2nd Lieutenant of Infantry, as- 
signed to F Company, 101st Engineers. Returned to 
the U.S. Apr. 4, and was discharged at Camp Devens 
Apr. 28, 1919. Front line service and battles were as 
follows: Chemin des Dames, Feb. 9 to Mar. 22, 1918; 
Boucq sector, Mar. 31 to May 15; La Reine sector, 



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May 15 to June 26 ; Pas Fini sector, July 9 to 15 ; 
Marne-Champagne defensive, July 15 to 17 ; Aisne- 
Marne offensive, July 17 to Aug. 6; St. Mihiel salient, 
Sept. 12 to 16; Troyon sector Sept. 16 to Oct. 10, 
1918. At present [Oct. 26, 1919], 2nd Lieutenant of 
Infantry, unassigned, Mass. Volunteer Militia. 



WILLIAM WATSON CASWELL, Jr., 1916. 

Joined the 101st Engineers May 4, 1917, and was 
made Corporal July 8. Sailed for France Sept. 25. 
Made Sergeant March 16, 1918, and 2nd Lieutenant 
of Engineers Nov. 14. Was engaged in the Chemin des 
Dames and Toul sectors. Left the 101st Engineers 
Jiily 1, 1919, and from then on was with the Fire Pre- 
vention Bureau as an Inspector. Returned to the U.S. 
July 8, 1919. 



PORTER RALPH CHANDLER, 1917. 

Enlisted Oct. 3, 1918, as a Private, 7th Company, 
Central M.G.O.T.S., Camp Hancock, Ga. Discharged 
Nov. 26, 1918. 



WILLIAM CHAMBERLAIN CHANLER, 1915. 

At the Harvard R.O.T.C. from May to Aug., 1917, 
and commissioned Provisional 2nd Lieutenant, U.S.A., 
Oct. 26. Reported for training at the Army Service 
Schools, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, Nov. 26, and was 



60 SAINT MARK'S SCHOOL IN THE 

assigned to the 14th F.A. Promoted to Temporary 
1st Lieutenant, from Oct. 26. Reported for duty with 
the 14th F.A. March 11, 1918, and served with them at 
the School of Fire, Fort Sill, Okla., until Dec. 27, 
1918. Resigned and was discharged Jan. 14, 1919. 



WALTER CHANNING, Jr., 1897. 

Enlisted as Candidate, 2nd Plattsburg Training 
Camp, Aug. 25, 1917. Commissioned Captain of In- 
fantry, R.C., Nov. 27 ; attached to the 79th Division, 
Camp Meade, Md. May 2, 1918, assigned to Lehigh 
University, U.S.A. Training Detachment as Command- 
ing Officer. Aug. 15, assigned to Camp Mabry, Austin, 
Tex., commanding L^.S.A. Training Detachment. Aug. 
20, promoted to Major of Infantry. Dec. 24, 1918, 
honorably discharged as Major of Infantry, U.S.A. 



CHARLES MERRILL CHAPIN, Jr., 1917. 

Enlisted in the Norton-Harjes Ambulance Corps, 
July 19, 1917, in Paris, and was sent to the Aisne 
front to join section 5 (S.S.U.5) in the first week of 
Aug. Remained at Vailly, on the Aisne, attached to the 
66th Division of Chasseurs, until Sept. 1. After three 
weeks' rest, returned with the same division to the same 
place. Remained at the front four weeks, assisting in 
the preparation for the attack on Fort Malmaison. 
Relieved by U.S. Army Ambulance men, Oct. 25, and 
returned to the U.S., landing Nov. 10. No individual 
citation, but this section was the only ambulance sec- 



WAR AGAINST GERMANY 61 

tion to receive the "Fourragere de la Medaille Mili- 
taire." Enlisted in the C.A.C., June 24, 1918, at Fort 
Monroe, Va. Entered the O.T.C., and was commissioned 
2nd Lieutenant Sept. 25. Served as Assistant Secretary 
of the Coast Artillery School at Fort Monroe until dis- 
charged, Dec. 20, 1918. 



LINDLEY HOFFMAN PAUL CHAPIN, 1907. 

Commissioned 2nd Lieutenant of Cavalry, O.R.C., 
May 10, 1917, and 1st Lieutenant Aug. 15. Left New 
York for overseas service Sept. 8. Assigned to Gen- 
eral Hq., A.E.F., at Chaumont, France, in Oct. De- 
tailed as Representative of the 4th Section of the Gen- 
eral Staff of General Hq. at the French General Hq. 
in July, 1918, and transferred in the same capacity to 
Marshal Foch's Hq. in Oct., remaining there until June, 
1919. Detailed to the General Staff Corps as 1st 
Lieutenant in Dec, 1918, and promoted to Captain, 
General Staff Corps, in Feb., 1919. Received the Dis- 
tinguished Service Medal (American Army) Apr. 5, 
1919; the British Military Cross Apr. 4; and the Le- 
gion of Honor Apr. 4. L^.S. Member of the Interallied 
Joint Secretariat of Council of Five Principal Allied 
and Associated Powers, Quai d'Orsay, Paris, Peace 
Conference, July-Oct., 1919. Honorably discharged 
from the Army in Paris Oct. 25, and returned to the 
U.S. in Nov., 1919. The citation for the Distinguished 
Service Medal follows. 

"As the representative of G-4 of the A.E.F., at the 
Direction Generale des Communications et des Ravi- 
taillements aux Armees, he displayed marked ability 



62 SAINT MARK'S SCHOOL IN THE 

and devotion to duty in a position of great responsi- 
bility. He handled, with tact and sound judgment, the 
involved and delicate questions continually arising in 
connection with our relationship with the Allied armies, 
and rendered services of great value to the Govern- 
ment." 

The citation for the British Military Cross reads, 
"In recognition of meritorious services rendered the 
Allied Cause." 

The recommendation for the Legion of Honor was 
for services similar to those mentioned in the Distin- 
guished Service Medal citation. 



VINTON CHAPIN, 1919. 

Enlisted in the Marine Corps Oct. 15, and was dis- 
charged Feb. 1, 1919. Ranked as Private throughout 
recruit duty at Paris Island, S.C. The Marine Corps 
was part of the 15th Regiment of the U.S. Marine 
Corps. 



EGBERT HAIGHT CHAPMAN, 1916. 

Left Yale in Apr., 1917, to join the N.R.F. at New- 
port, R.I. Held the rank of Gunner's Mate there until 
Oct., and then was transferred to the Naval Aviation 
as a student aviator, with the rank of Chief Quarter- 
master. Stationed at Cambridge, Mass., until Apr., 
1918; then became ill with pneumonia, and was placed 
on inactive service, so remaining until the armistice 
was signed. 



WAR AGAINST GERMANY 63 

WILLIAM BURR CHAPMAN, 1908. 

Enlisted Oct. 1, 1917, at Chicago, and entered the 
A.S. 2nd Lieutenant, A.S., Reserve Military Aviator. 
Flying Instructor for six months. Discharged at Ar- 
cadia, Fla., Dec. 2, 1918. 



AUGUSTUS SARIN CHASE, 1916. 

Enlisted Apr. 13, 1917, in K Company, 7th 
N.Y.N.G. Regiment, which was federalized into the 
107th U.S. Infantry July 15. From Sept., 1917, to 
May, 1918, trained at Spartanburg, S.C., as part of 
the 27th (N.Y.) Division. Left Newport News for 
France, and arrived at Brest May 24, 1918. Ap- 
pointed Company Agent of Liaison (i.e., mainly a 
runner) with the rank of 1st class Private. July-Sept., 
1918, did front line service with the 27th Division in 
Flanders and France. Took part in the following 
battles and engagements : recapture of Kemmel Hill ; 
engagements at the East Poperinghe Line; and at 
Dickebush Lake. All these were in the Ypres sector, 
Belgium. In the St. Quentin sector, took part in the 
early stages of the British-American offensive against 
the Hindenburg line between St, Quentin and Cambrai, 
from Sept. 26 to Oct. 15. Skull was fractured by 
shrapnel Sept. 28 at Bellicourt. Discharged after 
hospital treatment. 



64 SAINT MARK'S SCHOOL IN THE 

EDMUND ROWLAND CHASE, 1917. 

From Oct., 1917, to Sept., 1918, Private in the Yale 
R.O.T.C. (Artillery.) From Oct. 6 to Dec. 15, 1918, 
Private in the S.A.T.C. Battery A, of Yale University. 



WILLIAM HENRY CHASE, 1898. 

Enlisted Oct. 19, 1918, in the Harvard Unit, 
S.A.T.C, as a Private, and was honorably discharged 
from it with the same ranking; Dec. 4, 1918. 



ALBERT HAYDEN CHATFIELD, Jr., 1918, 

Enlisted Oct. 10, 1918, in the Harvard Unit, 
S.A.T.C, at Cambridge, Mass. Received the tempo- 
rary rank of Corporal, and was later promoted to 
Sergeant. Discharged from the service Dec. 18, 1918. 



WILLIAM HAYDEN CHATFIELD, 1910. 

Enlisted in the Harvard R.O.T.C. May 20, 1917, 
and was discharged Aug. 15. Admitted to the 2nd 
R.O.T.C, Fort Myer, Va., Aug. 27. Commissioned 
Captain of Infantry, R.C, Nov. 27. With the 155th 
Depot Brigade, Camp Lee, Va., from Dec. 15 to 31, 
and the Hq., General Supply Depot and Concentration 
Camp, Morristown, Va., from Jan. 15, 1918, to Apr. 
12. Transferred to the 309th Infantry, 78th Division, 



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Camp Dix, N.J., and reported for duty Apr. 17. 
Sailed from Brooklyn, N.Y., May 20 ; landed at South- 
ampton, June 4, and at Calais June 11. Participated 
in minor operations with the Australian 1st Corps 
from July 1 to 5. In the St. Mihiel sector from Sept. 
12 to Oct. 4, and the Argonne forest from Oct. 10 to 
Nov. 6. Sailed from Brest Feb. 28, and landed in New 
York March 6. Discharged at Camp Dix, N.J., March 
7, 1919. [Report by Secretary.] 



WAYNE CHATFIEI.D-TAYLOR, 1912. 

Entered the 1st O.T.C. at Fort Sheridan May 1, 
1917; was commissioned 1st Lieutenant of Cavalry, 
U.S.R., Aug. 15 ; assigned to Company C, 332nd M.G. 
Battalion, Sept. 1. Commanding Officer, Company C, 
332nd M.G. Battalion, Sept. 5 to Nov. 1 ; Acting Aide- 
de-Camp to Brigadier-General L. W. V. Kennon, Nov. 7 
to Feb. 20, 1918; commissioned Captain of Infantry, 
U.S.A., Dec. 31, 1917; Acting Adjutant, 171st Bri- 
gade, Feb. 20, 1918, to June 25; Commanding Officer, 
Company B, 332nd M.G. Battalion, June 25 to Oct. 
20; Commanding Officer, Company C, 9th M.G. Bat- 
talion, Oct. 23 to Dec. 16; Commanding Officer, Com- 
pany B, 348th M.G. Battalion, Feb. 15, 1919 to Apr. 
24. Discharged at Camp Lewis Apr. 24, 1919. Served 
in the Meuse- Argonne offensive and with the Army of 
Occupation. Went overseas with the 86th Division, 
fought with the 3rd Division, and came home with the 
91st. 



66 SAINT MARK'S SCHOOL IN THE 

CHARLES WARD CHENEY, Ex-1912. 

July 20, 1917, enlisted as a Private in the 14th 
Engineers (Railway), which July 27 sailed from the 
U.S., Aug. 15 paraded through London, and Aug. 21 
arrived at the front, six miles south of Arras, attached 
to the British as Light Railway Troops. March 21, 
1918, in the Somme defensive. Army Troops. June 10 
transferred to the Light Railway Hq., General Hq., 
A.E.F. Oct. 1 commissioned 2nd Lieutenant, Engineers, 
and Feb. 13, 1919, 1st Lieutenant. Apr. 6 returned to 
the U.S., and Apr. 12 was discharged. 

^WILLIAM HALS ALL CHENEY, 1916. 

William Halsall Cheney was born at Colorado 
Springs, Colorado, on the fifteenth of January, 1897. 
He was the younger son of Charles Paine Cheney and 
Mary Ward (Lyon) Cheney (Mrs. Wm. H. Schofield). 
He fitted for college at the Chateau de Lancy, Geneva, 
Switzerland, in 1910 and 1911, and at St. Mark's from 
1911 to 1916. Interested deeply in science and me- 
chanics, and particularly in aviation, he nevertheless 
met the daily duty of work and play at school with 
such conscientiousness and enthusiasm that in athletics, 
for which at first he did not seem to be particularly 
well fitted, he not only played for two years on the 
football team, but developed a power for leadership 
which resulted in his election as Captain. He was 
appointed to a monitorship in recognition of his loy- 
alty to the School, and of the respect in which he was 
held by all its members. He had travelled extensively 




WILLIAM HALSALL CHENEY 



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in the United States and Europe, including Panama 
and Iceland. He entered Harvard with the class of 
1920, and in the spring and summer vacation of 1916 
went to the Curtis Aeronautical School at Newport 
News. 

Cheney enlisted in the Signal Enlisted Reserve Corps 
on the thirty-first of March, 1917; entered the School 
of Military Aeronautics at Urbana, Illinois ; and grad- 
uated as an honor student on the twenty-fifth of July, 
1917. He was then sent abroad, on the thirteenth of 
August, as a member of the American Expeditionary 
Force, and was the first member of this command to 
complete his Italian Military Flying Brevet. This was 
on October eighteenth, 1917. He was commissioned as 
First Lieutenant in the Aviation Section, Signal Offi- 
cers' Reserve Corps, on the twenty-third of November, 
1917, and "thereafter as before," according to the 
Orders of the Day, January second, 1918, signed by 
Major William Ord Ryan, "showed his abilities as a sol- 
dier and endeared himself to all men of the command." 
Major Ryan reports that his death at Foggia, Italy, 
which occurred on the twentieth of January, 1918, was 
due to an almost impossible and wholly unavoidable 
accident. With Lieutenant Oliver B. Sherwood as 
observer he was piloting a machine over the flying field. 
Another machine, piloted by Aviation Cadet George A. 
Beach, was also in the air. A very low cloud of fog 
blew over the field and closed around Cheney's machine. 
He immediately turned to get out of it, and as the ma- 
chine emerged it struck that of Cadet Beach, who was 
also trying to avoid the fog. Both machines fell to the 
ground, a distance of about one hundred and fifty 
feet. Lieutenant Gordon C. Prince writes that as the 



68 SAINT MARK'S SCHOOL IN THE 

machines came together Cheney did the right thing, 
and banked up steeply to his left, while Beach did the 
same. It was too late, however, and the right wings of 
the aeroplanes crashed together and were torn off, the 
machines immediately dropping to earth about fifty 
feet apart. All three men were killed instantly. It 
was nobody's fault : simply fate, which robbed our 
country of three of its best pilots. Next to Sherwood, 
his passenger on their last flight, Cheney was by far the 
best American pilot there. He had an exceptionally 
fine "flying sense," and with it the best of aerial judg- 
ment, and was thoroughly at home in the air, being 
neither rash nor foolhardy. The service lost in him not 
only an excellent pilot, but a man with creative genius 
for aviation. He had submitted to the Aerial Board 
a set of designs and specifications for hangars for large 
aeroplanes that was most ingenious and solved many of 
the difficulties of this problem. 

The funeral of the three 3'^oung aviators took place 
in Foggia. In their honor the shops were closed, and 
the sixty or eighty thousand inhabitants drawn up 
along the sides of the streets in respectful silence. The 
caskets had been placed in the bright mortuary chapel 
of the hospital, before which a dense crowd of Ameri- 
can and Italian soldiers had gathered. The Genera] 
commanding the garrison, the Mayor, the Prefect and 
others represented the town, and huge wreaths lined the 
hall leading to the chapel, the silent tribute of love 
from provincial authorities and officers down to the 
steward of the mess. In the procession were, first, 300 
American soldiers ; the Italian representatives ; and 
then the hearses bearing the caskets covered with Amer- 
ican flags, and accompanied by a guard. Following 



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these were the officers and dignitaries. Before the gate 
a little platform had been raised, and from this the 
last greetings to the dead were pronounced by the Gen- 
eral of the Foggia garrison, the Italian Major com- 
manding the Camp of Aviation, and the Mayor of the 
town. At the vault in the cemetery the church ser- 
vice was read, an Italian squad fired the three volleys, 
and an American bugler sounded taps. The United 
States War Department has lately sent word that the 
remains of all who fell in Italy have been removed to 
an American Government Cemetery in Genoa, and may 
be brought home within six months. 

Cheney's life at St. Mark's not only maintained and 
strengthened the best traditions of the School, but 
added to them incalculably. His modesty, his buoyant 
temperament, his wholesome, manly sincerity and sym- 
pathetic heart won him a place very rarely attained in 
such a large community, and the grief at his loss was a 
deep and peculiarly personal one to every member of 
it. Selfishness was not in him. To all the manliness of 
a strong, straightforward nature was joined a simple, 
unconscious sweetness that guided and colored his least 
action. The letters of his brother officers in Italy at 
the time of his death are not necessary to those who 
knew him at St. Mark's ; for as he was when among us, 
so he was, if such a thing is possible, in even greater 
measure at his country's need: brave, strong, loyal, 
loving and true. 

CHARLES FRANCIS CHOATE, 3rd, 1911. 

Sailed for France Sept. 7, 1917, as Sergeant, 101st 
F.A. Went to the training camp at Coetquidan for 



70 SAINT MARK'S SCHOOL IN THE 

four months. Received commission as 2nd Lieutenant, 
U.S. Cavalry, Nov. 20. Spent one month at the front 
with the 101st F.A. March 1, 1918, joined the Staff 
of the Chief of Artillery, 1st Army. June 1 joined the 
Staff of the Chief of Artillery, General Hq., A.E.F., as 
Aide-de-Camp to the Assistant Chief of Artillery. Dec. 
12, joined the 301st F.A. ; and Jan. 1, 1919, joined 
Hq. 167th F.A. Brigade. Sailed for home Feb. 5. 
Resignation accepted March 21, 1919, as 1st Lieu- 
tenant. 



JOSEPH BURNETT CHOATE, 1911. 

Private and Corporal, H Company, 7th Provisional 
Regiment, at Plattsburg, N.Y., during July and Aug., 
1916; 2nd Lieutenant of Infantry, R.C., Nov. 6; 2nd 
Lieutenant of Infantry, R.C., Fort McPherson, Va., 
from May 6, 1917, to Aug. 15. Captain of Cavalry, 
Aug. 15 ; with Hq. Troop, 82nd Division, from Sept. 
1 to May 23, 1918. With Hq. Troop (attached) 1st 
Army Corps, A.E.F., from June 1 to July 15. At the 
Saumur Artillery School from July 15 to Sept. 30; 
with the 320th F.A. in the Meuse-Argonne offensive, 
from Oct. 3 to 16; sick in hospital from Oct. 19 to 
Feb. 4, 1919; and honorably discharged Feb. 4, 1919. 



ROBERT BURNETT CHOATE, 1916. 

Enlisted in Hq. Troop, 76th Division, at Camp 
Devens, Mass., May 15, 1918, and left for France July 
5. Sent to the Saumur Artillery School Oct. 1, and com- 



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pleted the Artillery Course Dec. 23. Sent as Casual to 
St. Nazaire, France, to rejoin the organization, which 
had left for the U.S. Attached to the St. Nazaire 
Casual Company No. 128. Arrived in the U.S. Jan. 
22, 1919. Hoboken Casual Company No. 128 for 
Camp Devens, Mass. Honorably discharged at Camp 
Devens Feb. 1, 1919. 



JAMES CAMERON CLARK, 1910. 

Enlisted as a Private of the 2nd class, A.S.,S.C., 
Sept. 26, 1917. Commissioned 1st Lieutenant in the 
same branch Dec. 5. Five months at Kelly Field, San 
Antonio, and eleven months at Carruthers Field, Fort 
Worth. Discharged Dec. 20, 1918. 



JOHN BALFOUR CLARK, Ex-1917. 

Enlisted in the 7th Infantry, N.Y.N.G., Apr. 18, 
1917, and was transferred to the A.S. as Flying Cadet, 
Aug. 31. Commissioned 2nd Lieutenant, Reserve Mili- 
tary Aviator, A.S., March 8, 1918. Attached to the 
185th Squadron, 1st Pursuit Group, while in the A.E.F. 
Discharged Apr. 18, 1919. 



WILLIAM CLARK, 1908. 

Enlisted in the U.S. Army in Apr., 1917, and at- 
tended the Fort Myer, Va., R.O.T.C. from May to Aug. 
15. Assigned as 2nd Lieutenant to the 314th Regi- 



72 SAINT MARK'S SCHOOL IN THE 

ment, F.A., 80th Division, Aug. 27. Served at Camp 
Lee until May, 1918, being promoted to 1st Lieutenant 
in Feb. Sailed with the Division for France May 24. 
Promoted to Captain Sept. 17, and served as Regi- 
mental Adjutant throughout the Meuse-Argonne bat- 
tles, from Sept. 26 to Nov. 11. Returned to America 
with the Regiment May 30, 1919, and received hon- 
orable discharge at Camp Lee, Va., June 7. 



WILLIAM COOMBS CODMAN, Jr., 1907. 

Completed a three months' course at the Remount 
O.T.S., Camp J. E. Johnston, and received the com- 
mission of 1st Lieutenant in the Remount Service. 



GEORGE DAWSON COLEMAN, 1909. 

At the First O.T.C., Fort Niagara, N.Y., in May, 
1917. 2nd Lieutenant in the A.S., Kelly Field, San 
Antonio, Tex., until May, 1918. Detailed as Instruc- 
tor at the S.M.A., Princeton, N.J., from May, 1918, 
to Nov., 1918. 



JOSEPH GRISWOLD COLEMAN, Jr., 1899. 

One year's service with the A.R.C. in France, from 
Jan., 1918 to Jan., 1919. A.R.C. Representative at 
U.S. Base Hospital 17, Dijon, and later at A.R.C. Hq., 
Paris. Rank, Captain. 



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LORING WILKINS COLEMAN, 1912. 

Enlisted Dec. 1, 1917, in Chicago as an Enlisted 
Private, S.R.C. Ordered to Kelly Field, San Antonio, 
Tex., and reported for duty Dec. 8. Transferred to 
the S.M.A., Columbus, O., Jan. 15, 1918. Graduated 
Feb. 26, and was commissioned 2nd Lieutenant in the 
Aviation Section, S. R. C, March 1. Reported for 
first assignment March 8, at Scott Field, Belleville, 
111., and was made Assistant Post Supply Disbursing 
and Ordnance Officer. Transferred to the Armorers' 
School, Wilbur Wright Field, Fairfield, O., Apr. 13. 
Graduated as Liaison Armament Officer June 18. Or- 
dered overseas. Remained at Camp Merritt from June 
18 to July 26, equipping troops and awaiting trans- 
portation. Sailed on the Italian Steamer Taormina 
July 26, as second in command of the Postal Clerks' 
Detachment, consisting of 300 men. Landed at Brest 
Aug. 6, and went to Pontenezen Barracks. Then took 
half of the detachment to Tours, France, Relieved of 
command, and ordered to the Aerial Gunnery School, 
St. Jean-de-Mont, Vendee. Assistant Post Emergency 
Purchasing Supply Officer from Aug. 18 to Sept. 27. 
Ordered to the A.S. Hq., Paris, Sept. 26. Made Chief 
of the School, Spare Parts Subdivision of the Airplane 
and Motor Division. Handled and ordered all spares 
for airplanes and motors for U.S. schools in France, 
with a main office in Paris and an auxiliary one at St. 
Cyr Aviation Field and Supply Depot. Dec. 26, trans- 
ferred to the Inventories Branch of the Valuation Di- 
vision at A.S. Hq. In charge of setting value upon 
all spare parts of airplanes, motors, and airplanes and 



74 SAINT MARK'S SCHOOL IN THE 

motors proper owned by the U.S. in France at all 
Fields, Depots, Schools and Squadrons. Promoted to 
1st Lieutenant, A.S., U.S. Army, Feb. 21, 1919. Left 
Paris March 6 with orders for return to the U.S. Spent 
two weeks at St. Aignan. Proceeded to Brest, spent 
seven days there, and returned to the U.S. on S.S. 
America with the 26th Division as Casual Officer. 
Landed in Boston, Apr. 5, and was discharged at 
Mitchell Field, L.L, Apr. 10, 1919. 



NEYLE HABERSHAM COLEMAN, Ex-1908. 

Enlisted as a Private in the 3rd Oregon Infantry, 
N.G., Company G, in Portland, Oregon, Apr. 9, 1917. 
This regiment was made over into the 162nd Infantry, 
41st Division, in Nov., 1917. Left New York on the 
transport Tuscania, Dec. 11, 1917, and landed in Liv- 
erpool Dec. 25. The regiment went to Le Havre, 
France, and was turned into a base division, and used 
as replacement troops and on detached duty. Com- 
panies F, G and H returned to England, and were sta- 
tioned in Southampton and Liverpool until Apr. 20, 
1919; then embarked for New York. Discharged at 
Camp Upton, New York, May 17, 1919. 



ROBERT COLEMAN, 1903. 

Enlisted as a Private in the Regular army, and was 
sent to San Francisco and then to Honolulu. Pro- 
moted to Corporal, and ordered to O.T.S. Graduated 
second in the Camp. Promoted to Sergeant of the 1st 



WAR AGAINST GERMANY 75 

U.S. Infantry ; sent to Atlanta, and then to Camp Pike, 
Ark., being given the commission of 2nd Lieutenant at 
the former. Sailed for France with replacement troops 
about Sept. 1, and was there stopped on an emergency 
and ordered to special service. [Report by Robert H. 
Coleman, dated Nov. 15, 1918.] 



WILLIAM CASSATT COLEMAN, 1906. 

Enlisted at Portland, Oregon, July 5, 1916, in 
Battery A, 1st Oregon F.A. Served on the Mexican 
border at Calexico, Cal., from Aug. 8 to Feb. 10, 1917. 
Discharged from the Federal service Feb. 22 at Van- 
couver Barracks, Wash., and made Corporal Apr. 27. 
Called out again July 25, 1917, and federalized Aug. 
5 at Clackamao, Oregon. Sailed from Camp Merritt 
Jan. 11, 1918, and landed at Le Havre, France, Jan. 
22 as Battery A, 147 F.A., 42nd Division. The Bat- 
tery was a firing battery for the Saumur Artillery 
School from Jan. 28 to May 23. Made Sergeant May 
1. Served in the Toul sector from June 5 to 22, sup- 
porting the 26th Division; and in the Alsace sector 
June 25 to July 24. Attached to the 32nd Division, 
and stayed with them until discharged. Served in the 
Aisne-Marne offensive, Aug. 1-9 ; was sick in the hospi- 
tal from Aug. 9 to Sept. 30 ; and served in the Meuse- 
Argonne offensive Oct. 1 to Nov. 11. Dec. 23 to Apr. 
14, 1919, stationed near Gondrecourt. Arrived at 
Brest Apr. 17, and sailed May 1, landing at Philadel- 
phia May 13. Discharged at Camp Dix May 23, 1919. 



76 SAINT MARK'S SCHOOL IN THE 



AMORY COOLIDGE, 1913. 

Entered the U.S.N.R.F. in Apr., 1917, as a Quar- 
termaster of the 3rd class. Made Ensign, U.S.N.R.F., 
in Oct. Sailed for Queenstown Feb. 15, 1918, and did 
duty on board U.S.S. Allen based at Queenstown until 
Dec, 1918. Made Lieutenant (j.g.) in Aug., 1918, 
and was discharged in Feb., 1919. 



THOMAS JEFFERSON COOLIDGE, 3rd, 1911. 

Candidate at First Plattsburg O.R.T.C., and com- 
missioned Captain, F.A., Aug. 15, 1917. Served with 
the 302nd F.A. until May, 1919. On the line between 
Verdun and St. Mihiel in Nov., 1918. 



JAMES DALLAS CORBIERE, 1907. 

Served from May to Aug., 1917, in the Harvard 
R.O.T.C. as Private, 2nd Lieutenant and 1st Lieuten- 
ant. At the 2nd O.T.C., Fort Myer, Va., from Aug., 
to Nov., 1917, and was commissioned Captain of 
Infantry Nov. 27. Assigned to the Depot Brigade, 
Camp Lee, Va., from Dec, 1917, to March, 1918; and 
to the 1st Infantry Replacement Camp, Camp Gordon, 
Ga., from March to Aug. Commissioned Major of 
Infantry Aug. 19, 1918. Assigned to the Army Gen- 
eral Staff College at Langres, France, from Aug. to 
Oct., 1918. Assigned commanding the 2nd Battalion, 
102nd Infantry, 26th Division, in Oct., at Verdun, and 



WAR AGAINST GERMANY 77 

served at Verdun until the armistice and afterwards 
with the 26th Division in training areas until the 
Division returned. Commanded the 26th Division, se- 
lected troops, at the 1st Army Review to President 
Wilson, at Humes, Christmas, 1918. Returned to the 
U.S. with the 26th Division in March, 1919, and was 
honorably discharged as Major, 102nd Infantry, May 
24, 1919. 



ERASTUS CORNING, 1899. 

Called to active service Aug. 11, 1917, as a mem- 
ber of the Med. R.C., with the rank of Captain. 
Assigned to the Walter Reed General Hospital, 
Tacoma Park, D.C., from Aug. 11 to Nov. 20, as 
Assistant to the Adjutant and Acting Adjutant. At 
U.S. Army Base Hospital 33, Albany, N. Y., from 
Nov. 20 to May 25, 1918, with duties as Adjutant; 
Camp Hospital 36, Southampton, England, from May 
25 to Aug. 2 as Camp Surgeon and Commanding Offi- 
cer of the Hospital ; U.S. Army Base Hospital 33, 
Portsmouth, England, from Aug. 2 to Feb. 4, 1919, 
as Commanding Officer. From Feb. 4 to Aug. 22, 
1919, served with the A.E.F. in North Russia, as 
Chief Surgeon. On the way home from North Russia 
to the U.S., from Aug. 22 to Oct. 15, served on the 
staff of Brigadier-General W. P. Richardson, U.S.A. 
Demobilized Oct. 24, 1919. Promotions were as fol- 
lows: Major, Oct. 1, 1918; Lieutenant-Colonel, Nov. 
15, 1918. Made a member of the Order of St. Stan- 
islas, 2nd Class, with Swords (Russia). The citation 
follows. 



78 SAINT MARK'S SCHOOL IN THE 

"As Chief Surgeon of this expedition, this officer 
has displayed conspicuous ability as an executive and 
was unremitting in his efforts to maintain the efficiency 
of the medical forces of the command. Keeping con- 
stantly in touch Avith the small and widely scattered 
medical units, he spared no efforts to see that every 
possible aid and comfort were given to the sick and 
wounded. He has displayed unusual tact in dealing 
with our Allies as well as with our own forces and 
has gained for himself the respect and good will of all 
with whom he came in contact. By his initiative, 
administrative ability and constant application he 
has filled a position of great responsibility in such a 
manner as to merit the highest commendation." 



CHARLES PERKINS COTTRELL, Jr., 1918. 

Enlisted in the Yale Naval Training Unit in Oct., 
1918, and served as Apprentice Seaman. Released 
Dec. 20, 1918. 



DONALD CLARK COTTRELL, 1911. 

Enlisted Apr. 28, 1917. Candidate at the 1st 
O.T.C. at Plattsburg Barracks, N.Y., from May 12 
to Aug. 15. Commissioned Captain of Infantry Aug. 
15, and assigned to the 76th Division, Camp Devens, 
Mass. In command of Company D, 304th Infantry, at 
Camp Devens, from Aug. 29, 1917, to July 7, 1918. 
Sailed for overseas July 8, and arrived at Chateau- 
neuf, France, July 24. In command of Company D, 



WAR AGAINST GERMANY 79 

304th Infantry, 3rd Depot Division, from July 24 to 
Nov. 9, 1918. Transferred to the 41st Division, and 
attached to Company B, 163rd Infantry. Jan. 1, 1919, 
assigned to the command of Company B, 163rd In- 
fantry. Sailed for the U.S. Feb. 1, 1919, and arrived 
Feb. 14. Honorably discharged at Camp Dix, N.J., 
Feb. 19, 1919, as Captain of Infantry. 

HENRY BRINTON COXE, Jr., 1916. 

Entered service as a Private in the Harvard 
S.A.T.C, Oct. 3, 1918, and was transferred Oct. 13 
to the C.O.T.S., 30th Company, 6th Battalion, at Camp 
Lee, Va. Commissioned 2nd Lieutenant of Infantry, 
R.C., Jan. 15, 1919, and discharged on the same date. 

WILLIAM DWIGHT CRANE, 1912. 

With the A.A.F.S. in Lorraine and Verdun from 
March 4, 1916, to Sept. 4. At the Plattsburg Train- 
ing Camp from May 15, 1917, to Aug. 15. Received 
commission of 2nd Lieutenant of Infantry, and sailed 
for France Sept. 8. Attended the British Bayonet and 
Physical Training School at St. Pol, France, until 
Nov. 1. Attached to the 16th Infantry, 1st Division, 
at Gondrecourt, France, for further training. Sent to 
the 42nd Division Dec. 4, and assigned to Company K, 
165th Infantry. Gassed March 21, 1918, in the 
Foret de Parroy, Lorraine, and sent to Base Hospital 
31 at Contrexeville. Assigned to Class B, and given 
duty at Is-sur-Tille. Sailed for home Feb. 4, 1919. 
Discharged at Camp Upton March 2, 1919. 



80 SAINT MARK'S SCHOOL IN THE 

EDWARD SAVAGE CROCKER, Jr., 1914. 

Enlisted in the U.S.N.R.F. in Apr., 1917, as an 
Able Seaman, and was stationed at Newport, R.I. 
Raised to 3rd Quartermaster in June, and transferred 
to New London, Conn. Raised to 2nd Quartermaster 
in Nov. Raised to 1st Quartermaster in Jan., 1918, 
and put in command of a patrol boat. Received the 
commission of Ensign in June, and was sent to Block 
Island and attached to the Communication Department 
for a few weeks. Ordered to the Communication De- 
partment, Brest, France, in July, Ordered to Rotter- 
dam, Holland, in Jan., 1919, in the company of four 
other officers, having Commander Bagley for the head, 
to establish a U.S. Port Office; and was put in charge 
of organizing the Communication Department. Re- 
turned to the U.S. in Apr., 1919, and retired to in- 
active service. [Report by Mrs. Emmons Crocker.] 



CHARLES BURBANK CROCKETT, 1919. 

Enlisted Oct. 1, 1918, in the U.S. Marine Corps 
Aviation Unit, at Cambridge, Mass., with the rank of 
Private (Station rating of Line Sergeant). Honorably 
discharged at Cambridge, Dec. 16, 1918. 



FREDERIC CROMWELL, 1918. 

Branch of service, A.S.A. Stationed at U.S. A.S.M.A., 
Ithaca, N.Y. Rank, Private of the 1st Class. In- 
ducted Nov. 3, 1918, and discharged Nov. 25, 1918. 



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JARVIS CROMWELL, 1914. 

From June to Dec, 1917, Head Military Depart- 
ment, U.S.S.M.A. as Civilian Instructor. From Dec, 
1917, to Apr., 1918, Private in the 78th Division, 3rd 
O.T.S. From Apr. to June, Sergeant in the 308th 
M.G. Battalion at Camp Dix. From June to Sept., 
2nd Lieutenant Instructor in the M.G. School, Camp 
Hancock, Ga. From Sept., 1918, to Feb., 1919, 1st 
Lieutenant in Company B, 33rd M.G. Battalion, Camp 
Meade, Md. Discharged at Camp Meade, Md., in Feb., 
1919. 

HENRY GREW CROSBY, 1917. 

Joined the A.F.S., July 20, 1917, and did duty 
with Sections 71 and 29. Enlisted in the U.S. A.A.S. 
Sept. 20. Demobilized at Camp Dix Apr. 5, 1919, with 
rank of Private of the 1st class. Awarded the 
Croix de Guerre and the A.F.S. Medal. Was a 
member of the (U.S. Army) S.S.U. 641, which received 
a citation for its work in Aug., 1918. Took part in 
the following battles : Somme, Verdun, Argonne, St. 
Mihiel, Soissons, Laon. The citations follow. 

To H. G. Crosby. 

Sir: In accordance with the accompanying letter 
numbered (c4/7) given under date of January 3rd, 
1919, by the Ministry of War of the French Republic, 
we have the honor of presenting to you 

The American Field Service Medal. 



82 SAINT MARK'S SCHOOL IN THE 

This decoration is conferred upon you in apprecia- 
tion of your record as a volunteer member of the 

American Field Service, 

the personnel of which has been privileged to serve the 
Armies of France in every campaign of the war, from 
the Battle of the Marne until the Allied victory. 

In congratulating you upon this tribute, it is the 
desire of our American and Foreign staffs, and of the 
Committees and Universities in the United States which 
have confidently supported the Field Service for four 
years to offer grateful acknowledgment of our debt to 
you. Only by such effort and sacrifice as you have 
personally given could the purpose and credit of our 
achievement have been accomplished. 

Signed: Henry D. Sleeper, 
Directing A.F.S. Headquarters. 

Le General Gassouin cite a I'ordre de la Division 
Section Sanitaire Americaine 641. 

"Dedaignant le danger, sans souci de la fatigue, a 
poursuivi sans arret, trois jours durant 23, 24, 25 
aout, 1918, I'evacuation des blesses a travers des zones 
violemment bombardees. A ete superbe d'entrain, de 
devouement, de volonte tenace." [To H. G. Crosby.] 

"Le General Gassouin, Commandant la ITeme Divi- 
sion d'Infanterie — cite a I'ordre du regiment le soldat 
Henri G. Crosby, a la S.S.U. 641. 

"Engage volontaire, s'est touj ours montre plein d*elan 
et de courage et a assure I'evacuation des blesses de la 
division d'infanterie avec un sang-froid et un devoue- 
ment admirable — d'aout a novembre 1918 dans des 
circonstances difiiciles et souvent perilleuses." 



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FREDERICK HAMMERSLEY CRUGER, 1904. 

Went to the Mexican border with Squadron A, and 
while there joined the 69th Regiment as Lieutenant. 
Recommended on return to N.Y. to the 77th Regiment, 
with the grade of Captain, Ammunition Trains. Went 
overseas, and was made second in command, with the 
rank of Major, in Supply Trains at Brest. [Report 
by Mrs. J. F. Tarns.] 



HENRY CHAUNCEY CRYDER, 1888. 

Commissioned 1st Lieutenant, Ordnance Section, 
U.S.R., May 5, 1917. In charge of Purchasing Bu- 
reau, Small Arms and Ammunition Manufacturers, at 
New York, June 5. Commissioned Captain, U.S.R., 
Aug. 11, and assigned to the Finance Section, Ord- 
nance Department, Jan. 2, 1918. Ordered to the Aber- 
deen Proving Ground, Md., March 4, in charge of 
Purchasing and Property, commanding 3rd Bat. Rec- 
ommended for promotion Sept. 10, and passed the 
Board of Promotion in Oct., but no action was taken 
because of the armistice, Nov. 11. Honorably dis- 
charged Jan. 6, 1919. 

JAMES CUNNINGHAM, 1903. 

Entered the F,A. Aug. 15, 1917, as 2nd Lieutenant 
of Cavalry. Made Captain, Nov. 4, 1918. At Camp 
Meade, Md., from Aug. 5 to Dec. 14, 1918, when 
discharged. 



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MACKLIN CUNNINGHAM, 1913. 

Sept. 19, 1917, entered the Supply Company, 304th 
Infantry, 76th Division, at Camp Devens, Mass., as a 
Private. Nov. 1, made Ordnance Sergeant of the 1st 
Class. May 24, 1918, transferred to the 44th Com- 
pany, lr55th Depot Brigade, Camp Lee, Va. June 1, 
made 2nd Lieutenant of Infantry. Sept. 19, trans- 
ferred to the 97th Division at Camp Cody, N.M., and 
assigned to Company B, 387th Infantry. Discharged 
Nov. 30, 1918, as 2nd Lieutenant, 387th Infantry. 



RICHARD DARRELL DARRELL, Ex-1918. 

Joined the Yale Unit, F.A., in Sept., 1917 ; was sent 
to Camp Jackson, Columbia, S.C., in Aug., 1918, and 
afterwards to Camp Zachary Taylor, Louisville, Ky., 
in Sept. Received a commission as 2nd Lieutenant 
Sept. 13, and was preparing to sail for France when 
the armistice was declared. [Report by E. F. Darrell.] 

JULIEN TOWNSEND DAVIES, 1913. 

Enlisted May 5, 1917, in the U.S.N.R.F., at New- 
port, R.I. Commissioned Ensign May 7, 1918, and as- 
signed to duty at the Hq. of the Third Naval District, 
New York City. Transferred to sea duty on the troop 
transport U.S.S. Matsonia, running between New Yoi'k 
and France, Sept. 12. Returned to Hq., 3rd Naval 
District, Jan. 10, 1919, and was released from active 
duty May 25, 1919. 



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DUDLEY DAVIS, 1901. 

Entered the 1st O.T.C. at Plattsburg, N.Y., May 
12, 1917. Honorably discharged from Company K, 
7th N.Y. Infantry, N.G., U.S., June 12, and from the 
1st O.T.C, at Plattsburg, Aug. 14. Commissioned 
Captain, Infantry Section, O.R.C., Aug. 15. Reported 
to the Commanding General, Camp Upton, New York, 
Sept. 2, and was assigned to the 307th Infantry, N.A,, 
and to the command of Company F, Sept. 3. Sailed 
from New York on H.M.S.S. Justitia, Apr. 6, 1918; 
arrived at Liverpool Apr. 19, and at Calais Apr. 20. 
Trained with the British at Tournehem, Pas de Calais, 
from Apr. 22 to May 13. Brigaded with the British 
Manchester Brigade in Division Reserve at Henu, Pas 
de Calais, May 15 to June 5. Served in the Baccarat 
sector, Meurthe et Moselle, from June 18 to Aug. 5; 
in the Vesle sector, Aisne, from Aug. 11 to 18; and in 
the Oise-Aisne offensive (Vesle to Aisne Rivers), Aug. 
18 to Sept. 8. Commanded Company F continuously 
up to Sept. 8, except for Aug. 27 to 29, when in com- 
mand of the 2nd Battalion, 307th Infantry, in the at- 
tack on Chateau du Diable on the Vesle River between 
Fismes and Bazoches ; and Sept. 4, when in command 
of the Battalion in Fismes. Evacuated to the hospital 
Sept. 9, and discharged from it Oct. 2. Commanded 
the 3rd Company in the 1st Army Advance Replace- 
ment Depot, from Oct. 5 to Nov. 17. Reassigned to 
the 77th Division Nov. 17 ; to the 307th Infantry Nov. 
18; and to Company F Nov. 23. Sailed from Brest 
on U.S.S.S. Louisville Apr. 21, and arrived at Ho- 
boken, N.J., Apr. 30. Honorably discharged at Camp 



86 SAINT MARK'S SCHOOL IN THE 

Upton, N.Y., May 10, as Captain, 307th Infantry. 
Presiding Officer, Special Courts Martial and Summary 
Court Officer, 307th Infantry, from Dec. 10, 1918, to 
May 10, 1919. Cited for exceptional bravery as fol- 
lows: 

"Captain Dudley Davis, 307th Infantry, at Chateau 
du Diable, near Fismes, France, on the morning of 
August 27th, 1918, suddenly found himself in com- 
mand of the 2nd Battalion of the 307th Infantry dur- 
ing the attack on Chateau du Diable. Showing an 
utter disregard for his personal safety, he proceeded to 
the forward companies to get first-hand information 
as to the circumstances in order to intelligently handle 
the situation. In order to accomplish this, it was 
necessary for him to go through an intense artillery 
and machine-gun barrage. He then established for 
himself a P. C, and proceeded to carry on the attack 
with coolness and care, skilfully organizing the Bat- 
tallion after the attack." 



CLIFFORD E. DENNIS, Master. 

Entered the 2nd O.T.C., Plattsburg, N.Y., Aug. 
22. Commissioned 2nd Lieutenant Nov. 27, 1917 ; as- 
signed to the 304th Infantry, 76th Division. Sailed 
J\ily 6, 1918. Served after the armistice in the Em- 
barkation Camp, St. Nazaire, and as Instructor at 
A.E.F. University, Beaune, France. Discharged Aug. 
12, 1919. 



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CASIMIR deRHAM, 1914. 

Commissioned 2nd Lieutenant of F.A. Aug. 15, 1917, 
at Plattsburg, N.Y., after three months' training. As- 
signed to the 303rd F.A. at Camp Devens, Mass., Sept. 
1, and continued with it until May 1, 1918. May 15, 
assigned to the 114th F.A., and served with it until 
Aug. 11. Promoted to 1st Lieutenant, F.A., July 30. 
Overseas from June to August, 1918. From Sept. to 
Dec, assigned to the 65th F.A., Camp Kearney, Cal. 
Discharged Dec. 17, 1918. 



^CHARLES deRHAM, Jr., 1906. 

Charles deRham, Jr., the son of Charles and Emily 
Foster deRham, was born in New York City on the 
twenty-seventh of April, 1888. He entered St. Mark's 
in the Second Form in 1901, and graduated in 1906. 
He was prominent in athletics as a member of the foot- 
ball team, and was also a monitor. After graduating 
from Harvard in 1912, he went into business, and at 
the time of his death was Secretary of the Atlas Ad- 
vertising Agency. His three brothers graduated from 
St. Mark's one of whom, Girard, the next younger than 
Charles, died at the School during his Freshman year 
at Harvard. 

He went to the training camp at Plattsburg in the 
summer of 1916, and again in 1917 after his enlistment, 
where, on the fifteenth of August, he was commissioned 
a Second Lieutenant of Infantry. He then went at 
once to Camp Upton, and was promoted to First Lieu- 



88 SAINT MARK'S SCHOOL IN THE 

tenant in December, In this capacity he sailed for 
France about the middle of April, 1918, with the 
Seventy-seventh Division, Company B, just after his 
marriage to Miss Jean King, After training at va- 
rious places in France he was sent to Baccarat, and 
remained there until his division crossed the Vesle River, 
He was Acting Captain in C Company for many weeks, 
and the only officer in the Company. Major Metcalfe, 
of his" Regiment, asked for his promotion to a captaincy 
at this time, but "in the rush of events the commis- 
sion was side-tracked." DeRham swam the Vesle River 
twice at night in an attempt to find a fording-place 
for his men of Company C. He later swam it again 
with his men, and took possession of the village of 
Bazoche. He was Acting Captain of Company C in 
the advance through the Argonne forest, and on Sep- 
tember the twenty-eighth he was wounded and taken 
back to Mobile Hospital No. 4, at La Grange aux Bois, 
where he died on the ninth of October, 1918. He was 
cited for bravery in crossing the Vesle by General Rob- 
ert Alexander, and again for five attacks upon machine- 
gun nests in the Argonne forest.^ Major Metcalfe 
also testifies that besides being extremely brave and an 
excellent officer, deRham was the most indefatigable 
worker he ever knew. The citation is as follows : "First 
Lieutenant Charles deRham, 305th Infantry (de- 
ceased), under great difficulties led the first patrol of 
his Brigade to cross the Vesle River and gain the 
heights beyond. This he did immediately upon return- 
ing from another patrol on which he was compelled 
twice to swim the river during the night, near Barri- 
cade Pavillion. This officer led his company in five 

1 The Distinguished Service Cross was awarded to deRham 
in March, 1920. 




CHARLES deRHAM, Jr. 



WAR AGAINST GERMANY 89 

successive attacks against machine-gun nests. On the 
last of these attacks he was killed." 

That deRham should have met as he did the supreme 
test of loyalty and devotion when his opportunity came, 
is but a result of strength and purity of purpose, and 
only those who are conscious of these in themselves can 
take life with the deep, natural joy that they called 
forth in him. But thus even the brave soldier of the 
Vesle and the terrible Argonne forest is less to his 
friends, if such a thing can be, than the laughing, in- 
tensely normal boy who was so much to the life of the 
School in his day, and whom everybody loved for what 
he was. Everything had zest for him; good-natured, 
golden-hearted, full of life, he never failed to find out 
the amusing possibilities of a large community, though 
he kept them sanely apart from the real duties, and 
was never found wanting in his work or responsibilities. 
There is something characteristic and true to tem- 
perament in "twice swimming the Vesle at night," and 
"five attacks upon machine-gun nests," as though the 
old-time boyishness were again blazing up at the call 
of risky adventure. The challenge to skill and per- 
sistence combined with the sober devotion to his men and 
to his duty ; and he came to honor as to a natural in- 
heritance, because he was generous, genuine and true. 
The gay, loving heart has ceased to beat ; but the mem- 
ory of him will cling about the School as long as any 
live who knew him there, and his honor is a treasure 
that will never pass away from St. Mark's. 



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JULIAN FRENCH DEVEREUX, 1905. 

Enlisted in Troop A, first Ohio Cavalry, Jan. 2, 
1909, and was made Private ; Corporal ; and Sergeant. 
Commissioned Lieutenant of Cavalry, Ohio N.G., in 
March, 1913, and assigned to Troop A, Ohio Cavalry. 
Mustered into the Federal service June 18, 1916. 
Transferred to the 8th U.S. Cavalry in Sept., 1916; 
Aide-de-Camp to Major George Bell, Jr., from Jan. 8 
to Feb. 16, 1917. Mustered out of the Federal service 
in Feb., 1917. Commissioned Captain of Cavalry in 
May ; and Major in the F.A. in July. Drafted into the 
Federal service Aug. 5, and assigned to the 136th F.A. 
Transferred in Feb., 1918, to the 302nd Cavalry, N.A., 
and commissioned Major (Cavalry) N.A. Cavalry 
transferred and assigned to the F.A. ; assigned to the 
64th F.A. Discharged Jan. 4, 1919, at Fort Sill, 
Okla. Had the following stations after June, 1916: 
Camp Willis, O. ; Camp Owen Bierney, Tex. ; Ysleta, 
Tex. ; Fort Bliss, Tex. ; Fort Benjamin Harrison, Ind. ; 
Youngstown, O. ; Cincinnati, O. ; Camp Sheridan, Ala. ; 
Camp Kearney, Cal. ; Camp Fremont, Cal. ; Camp 
Harry J. Jones, Ariz. ; and Fort Sill, Okla. 



DANIEL DEWEY, 1918. 

From Oct. 1 to Dec. 16, 1918, with the U.S.N.R.F., 
Williams College, Williamstown, Mass., with the rank 
of Seaman of the 2nd class. 



WAR AGAINST GERMANY 91 

JOHN CLARK DEWEY, Jr., 1909. 

Enlisted at Boston as a Private of the 1st class, 
Sept. 7, 1917, in the S.R.C., Aviation Section. Sept. 
17, entered the Ground O.T.S. at Kelly Field, Tex. 
Graduated with the first class, Nov. 7. Commissioned 
1st Lieutenant, Dec. 13, and called to active duty Dec. 
20. Stationed at the Aviation General Supply Depot, 
San Antonio, Tex., being Commanding Officer of the 
675th Aero Squadron for six months. Later held the 
positions of Adjutant and Personnel Adjutant at the 
same post. Discharged from this station Jan. 8, 1919, 
as 1st Lieutenant, A.S., U.S. Army. 



DEWEES wood DILWORTH, 1908. 

From July 1, 1917, to Jan. 1, 1918, Assistant Di- 
rector, U.S. Food Administration. Went to the 
U.S.S.M.A. Jan. 16, and graduated March 24. Re- 
ceived commission as 2nd Lieutenant, U.S.A.S. Served 
as Supply Officer and Adjutant at Hazelhurst Field, 
Mineola, L.L, and as Adjutant at the Supply Depot, 
Middletown. Discharged Dec. 14, 1918. 



RICHARDSON DILWORTH, 1917. 

Enlisted as a Private in the U.S. Marine Corps 
Feb. 14, 1918. Sailed for France Apr. 23, with the 3rd 
Replacement Battalion, U.S. Marine Corps, and landed 
May 7. Transferred to the 2nd Replacement Battal- 



92 SAINT MARK'S SCHOOL IN THE 

ion until June 7 ; then joined the 80th Company, 6th 
Regiment, U.S. Marines. Went through the battle of 
Belleau Wood, and was wounded at Vierzy, in the 
Soissons drive, July 19. Remained in the Red Cross 
Military Hospital No. 2 until Nov. 20. Sailed for 
home Dec. 25, and was put .on inactive duty Feb. 11, 
1919. 



JOHN BIGELOW DODGE, 1912. 

Seeved in the British Army from Sept. 14, 1914, 
to Apr. 23, 1919. [Signed "Lt.-Col. J. B. Dodge, 
D.S.O., D.S.C., per L. G. Guest."] From an undated 
previous report: "Address, commanding the 16th (Sus- 
sex yeo.) Bat., Royal Sussex Reg't, B.E.F., France. 
Rank, Lieutenant-Colonel. Post, Commanding Officer, 
Infantry Battalion. Decorations or citations. Dis- 
tinguished Service Cross ; Mons Star ; mentioned in dis- 
patches twice." 



WILLIAM EARLE DODGE, 1901. 

Captain, commanding Company H, 305th Infantry, 
77th Division, from its formation. Transferred Nov. 
15 to Company A, commanding. Promoted to Major 
commanding 1st Battalion in March, 1919. In action 
at the following places : Lorraine, Vesle, Aisne, Argonne 
(first and second phases). Commanding Company H in 
the capture of St. Juvin. Served in the 305th Infantry 
from its formation until its muster-out at Camp Upton 
May 9, 1919. Received the following citation: 



WAR AGAINST GERMANY 93 

"Displayed exceptional gallantry and leadership on 
October 14th near St. Juvin. Major Dodge, then 
Captain, commanding leading company of his battalion, 
crossed the Aisne River under shell fire in daylight, 
moved rapidly over a broad exposed terrain, flanked 
and entered St. Juvin taking many prisoners and large 
stores, moved north of the town and reached his ob- 
jective. The next morning he repelled a counter- 
attack, took prisoners, and sent to flight the attacking 
forces." [Report by Mrs. Stephen Olin.] 



SAMUEL MARTIN DORRANCE, 1901. 

"Voluntary Chaplain," or "Camp Pastor," at Jef- 
ferson Barracks, Mo., from Jan. 1 to June 21, 1918; 
and Post Chaplain, with rank of 1st Lieutenant, at Jef- 
ferson Barracks, Mo., from June 21 until mustered out 
Apr. 30, 1919. 



JAMES GORDON DOUGLAS, 1902. 

Entered the A.R.C., foreign service, as a Private; 
served eighteen months, and was discharged as Major. 

WICKLIFFE PRESTON DRAPER, 1909. 

Enlisted in Sept., 1914, in the M.G. Corps, Eng- 
land, and in Dec. joined the Royal Field Artillery com- 
missioned as 2nd Lieutenant. In Feb., 1915, served at 
Neuve Chapelle, Richebourg, and the Somme. 1st 
Lieutenant in Feb., 1916, at Salonica. In Apr., 1917, 



94 SAINT MARK'S SCHOOL IN THE 

served in Belgium at Messines and Ypres, being 
wounded at the latter place. Made 1st Lieutenant, 
F.A.U.S.R., in Oct., 1917. Became an Instructor at 
Plattsburg, being made Captain; Adjutant in the 
311th F.A. ; Instructor at Fort Sill; Instructor, 
F.A., C.O.T.S. in May; and was discharged in Dec, 
1918. 



MALCOLM HENRY DYAR, Master. 

Entered the Cornell University Ground School of 
Aviation Feb. 9, 1918, as a Private of the 1st class. 
Commissioned 2nd Lieutenant, A.S., July 31. Served 
in France from Sept. 3 to March 31, 1919. Attached 
to the 186th Aero Squadron. Discharged Apr. 14, 
1919. 



LAURENCE WALDO FAMES, 1906. 

From May 12 to Aug. 15, 1917, Candidate at the 
1st Plattsburg Training Camp, and commissioned Cap- 
tain of Infantry on the latter date. Commanded 
Company K, 302nd Infantry, from Aug. 29, 1917, to 
Sept. 30, 1918, and sailed for France July 4, 1918. 
At the Army School of the Line, Langres, from Oct. 1 
to Dec. 31. Commanded Company F, 138th Infantry, 
from Jan. to May 1, 1919. Returned to the U.S. 
Apr. 26, and did recruiting duty from May to Aug. 1 
in New York City. Discharged at Governor's Island 
July 30, 1919. 



WAR AGAINST GERMANY 95 

FELTON BROOMALL ELKINS, 1909. 

Joined the San Francisco Cavalry Troop in Apr., 

1917. Entered the first O.T.C. of San Francisco in 
May, and was honorably discharged in July. Per- 
mitted by General Crowder to waive the Draft Board 
"rejection," and proceed overseas for volunteer duty 
in Aug. Sailed with a detachment of the A.F.S. in 
Sept. Rejected on the Army physical examination, 
A.F.S., Hq., Paris, in Oct. Worked six weeks as a 
civilian employee, Aviation Hq., Paris, and was recom- 
mended in the first ten days for a commission as 2nd 
Lieutenant, Ground Aviation, S.C. Again rejected upon 
physical examination, in Dec. Succeeded, through the 
efforts of Colonel Leroy-Lewis, Military Attache, 
British Embassy, Paris, in having passport vised 
for England, in Dec. Admitted to the O.T.C, Henley- 
on-Thames, as Provisional Junior Subaltern, in Jan., 

1918. "Posted" (confirmed iri commission of 2nd 
Lieutenant) to No. 5 Balloon Stores Depot, Chelsea, 
in Feb. Confined to the 2nd London General Hospital 
in March, 1918, and invalided by the Medical Board 
out of His Majesty's service in Apr. In May, name 
appeared in the Gazette as resigning commission owing 
to a previous letter to the War Office requesting a 
transfer to the U.S. Army Remount Service, Q.M.C. 
Underwent an operation at the Lane Hospital, San 
Francisco, in June, 1918. Again rejected upon 
physical examination for admission to the Remount 
School, in Sept. Classified as "Special and Limited 
Military Service, Assistant Veterinary Surgeon," on 
the last draft board examination, in Oct., 1918. 



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WILLIAM McINTYRE ELKINS, 1901. 

Volunteered at the Office of Naval Intelligence, 
Washington, D.C., July 1, 1917; made Lieutenant 
(j.g.), U.S.N.R.F. Oct. 1, 1917; Lieutenant, 
U.S.N.R.F., June 15, 1918; and was released to in- 
active duty Dec. 15, 1918. 



HOWARD ELLIOTT, Jr., 1918. 

In the summer of 1918 attended the R.O.T.C. at 
Cambridge and Lancaster, Mass. In Oct. enlisted in 
the U.S. Marine Corps and was assigned to the Marine 
Unit at Harvard, remaining there until Dec. 16, when 
honorably discharged. 



FRANKLIN HENRY ELLIS, 1902. 

Entered the 1st O.T.C. at Plattsburg May 13, 
1917. Transferred to the Engineer O.T.C. at Ameri- 
can University, Washington, June 15. Commissioned 
Captain, Engineer R.C., Aug. 15. Assigned to the 
23rd Engineers, Camp Meade, Sept. 5. Made Acting 
Regimental Supply Officer, and held this position until 
the 1st Battalion was ordered abroad; then made Bat- 
talion Supply Officer, 1st Battalion, 23rd Engineers, 
and sailed for France on the Huron, Jan. 23, 1918. 
Arrived at Brest, France, Feb. 5. Sent to St. Nazaire 
and remained there about two weeks ; then ordered to 



WAR AGAINST GERMANY 97 

move. Feb. 28 arrived at the front in the first Ameri- 
can sector north of Toul ; and encamped in the Foret 
de la Reine near Boucq. The Battahon remained in 
this sector building highways until Aug. 1, 1918. Left 
the Battalion and entered the Army Line School at 
Langres, Aug. 1. After graduating, was sent to the 
Army General Staff College. Graduated Jan. 1, 1919. 
Transferred about Feb. 1 to the 102nd Engineers, and 
again made Supply Officer. Joined this regiment at 
Lombron, Le Mans area. Sailed for home from Le 
Havre on the steamer Rochambeau, Feb. 20, and 
arrived in New York Feb. 28. Remained with the 
Regiment at Camp Mills for the parade of the 27th 
Division, March 25. Discharged from the army with 
rank of Captain, Apr. 5, 1919. 



JAY MORSE ELY, 1908. 

Entered the 2nd O.T.C., Fort Sheridan, 111., in 
Aug., 1917; commissioned 1st Lieutenant of Infantry 
Nov. 27, and assigned to the 80th Division, Camp Lee, 
Va. Reported Dec. 15, and was assigned to the 315th 
M.G. Battalion. Appointed Adjutant Jan. 1, 1918. 
Assigned to the M.G. School, Camp Hancock, Ga., May 
1. Transferred as Aide-de-Camp to General James A. 
Ryan, 1st Brigade, 15th Cavalry Division, Fort Sam 
Houston, Tex., June 10. Accompanied General Ryan 
when he took command of the 17th Infantry Brigade, 
9th Division, Camp Sheridan, Ala., Oct. 1. Received 
discharge from that camp Dec. 9, 1918. 



98 SAINT MARK'S SCHOOL IN THE 

ROBERT RUTHERFORD MORRIS EMMET, 
1907. 

Lieutenant in the U.S.N, when war was declared. 
From March 15, 1917, to June 8, in command of the 
Armed Guard, S.S. Minnesota, Atlantic Transport 
Line, and made the passage from New York to South- 
ampton, England, and return. From June 8 to July 
7, on temporary duty at the Bureau of Navigation, 
Navy Department, Washington. From July 7 to Nov. 
24, attached to U.S.S. Maine as Gunnery Officer. From 
Nov. 24 to Jan. 18, 1918, on temporary duty at the 
Bureau of Navigation. Engaged in organizing a 
"School for Officers of Merchant Marine in Anti-sub- 
marine Defence." From Jan. 18, 1918, to Apr. 1 in 
charge of the School for Officers of Merchant Marine 
in Anti-submarine Defence, at the U.S. Sub- 
marine Base, New London, Conn. Made Lieuten- 
ant-Commander, U.S.N., Feb. 1, 1918. From Apr. 
1 to Dec. 16, attached to U.S.S. Canonicus as 
Executive Officer. The Canonicus was a mine-layer, 
and was attached to the first mine-laying squadron, 
United States Fleet, which comprised the 2nd mine- 
laying squadron of the British Grand Fleet. She as- 
sisted in laying the North Sea barrage between May 26 
and Oct. 28, 1918. From Dec. 16, 1918, to the date 
of this report [Nov. 25, 1919] attached to U.S.S. 
Bridgeport as Executive and Repair Officer. The 
Bridgeport was stationed at Brest, France, until Oct. 
15, 1919, and provided the necessary repair organiza- 
tion for transports engaged in returning our troops 



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from Europe to the U.S. The Navy Department has, 
to date, not acted upon any recommendations for deco- 
rations for officers of the Navy. 



WATSON CASE EMMET, 1910. 

From June, 1917, to Nov., served with the Norton- 
Harjes Volunteer Ambulance Corps, S.S.U. 59; and 
from Nov. to Feb., 1918, Civilian Employee, Aviation 
Hq., Paris. In March, 1918, enlisted in the French 
Foreign Legion, and was assigned to the 32nd R.A.C. 
at the Ecole Militaire d'Artillerie, Fontainebleau. 
Graduated in July, 1918, with the rank of Aspirant. 
Assigned to the 23rd Battery, 1st Group, 222nd Regi- 
ment, Artillerie de Campagne. Cited "a I'ordre de 
I'Artillerie Divisionnaire de la 167me Division." Oct. 
16, 1918, received the Croix de Guerre. The 222nd 
Regiment received two citations "a I'ordre de I'Armee," 
July and Oct., 1918, Fourragere, Croix de Guerre; and 
the 1st Group, 222nd R.A.C, a citation "a I'ordre du 
Regiment" in Nov. Promoted to Sous-Lieutenant in 
March, 1919. Demobilized in May. Took part in the 
following operations : defensive, the Lorraine sector, 
Aug.-Oct., 1917 (Baccarat) and the Champagne sec- 
tor, Aug.-Sept., 1918 (Suippes) ; offensive, Malmaison, 
Oct.-Nov., 1917 (Soissons); Champagne, Sept.-Oct., 
1918; Hindenburg Line, Vouziers, Attigny; and Oise- 
Aisne, Oct.-Nov., 1918, Loos, Hindungstellung Line, 
Rethel, Chateau-Porcien, Chaumont-Porcien. The ci- 
tation for Oct. 16 follows: 

"Emmet, Watson, Aspirant, 222 R.A.C, aspirant 
americain, servant a titre de Fran9ais, remarquable par 



100 SAINT MARK'S SCHOOL IN THE 

son calme et son mepris du danger ; a ete un auxiliaire 
precieux pour son commandant de Batterie, pendant 
les offensives de Champagne de septembre-octobre 
1918." 



WILLIAM HEMSLEY EMORY, 1906. 

Enlisted in the British Cavalry, and was attached 
to the 2nd Dragoon Guards (Scots Greys) in 1914. 
Later transferred to the 253rd Tunnelling Company, 
Royal Engineers. Honorably discharged in No. 4 Lon- 
don General Hospital in June, 1916. Took part in the 
following battles : second battle of Ypres ; Hooge ; Loos ; 
Vermelles. Received wounds by gas, bayonet-thrust, 
rifle-ball and shell fragment, and by the blowing up of 
a countermine. Entered the 1st O.T.C., Camp Ogle- 
thorpe, Ga. Served one year at Camp Jackson, S.C. ; 
2nd Lieutenant, Remount Station. Joined the 321st 
Infantry, 81st Division, as 1st Lieutenant in Sept., in 
the Vosges mountains, France. From Oct. to Nov. 
11 was in action with the 321st Infantry before Ver- 
dun. Discharged in July, 1919. Received the follow- 
ing decorations : Star of 1914 ; British War Medal ; 
British Silver Medal; British Victory Medal; and the 
United States Victory Medal (two stars). 



CHARLES EDWARD GILPIN ERVIN, 1912. 

Enlisted in the U.S. Navy in July, 1917, as a Sea- 
man of the 2nd class, and did coast patrol duty be- 
tween the Charlestown Navy Yard and the Maine boun- 



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dary. About Sept., 1917, entered the Cadet Train- 
ing School at Cambridge, Mass. Graduated in Feb., 
1918, with the rank of Ensign. Ordered to Mare 
Island Navy Yard, San Francisco, for duty on the 
destroyer Boggs, then building. The Boggs was not 
completed in time to go into active service before the 
armistice, although she made one or two trial trips. 
Promoted to the rank of Lieutenant ( j.g.). Left active 
service in February, 1919. [Report by Spencer Ervin.] 



ROBERT GILPIN ERVIN, 1909. 

Commissioned 2nd Lieutenant of Infantry in the 
Regular Army in March, 1917. Entered the Provis- 
ional O.T.S., Fort Leavenworth, in Apr., 1917, and 
graduated in June, "recommended for immediate com- 
mand of a company." Commissioned 1st Lieutenant in 
July, and joined the 21st Infantry at San Diego, Cal. 
Engaged in Intelligence work in the Southern Cali- 
fornia Border District. Promoted to Captain in Aug. 
Transferred to the A.S. in Apr., 1918, and graduated 
from the S.M.A., Austin, Tex., in June. Qualified as 
Pursuit Pilot at Rockwell Field, San Diego, in Aug. 
Ordered overseas in command of a day bombing squad- 
ron in Oct., but was prevented from starting by a 
serious accident. The orders were repeated Nov. 9, 
but the signing of the armistice, Nov. 11, 1918, pre- 
vented starting. Now [about Nov. 1, 1919] in com- 
mand of the 2nd Aero Squadron under orders to pro- 
ceed to Corregidor, Philippine Islands. [Report by 
Mrs. R. G. Ervin.] 



102 SAINT MARK'S SCHOOL IN THE 

FRANCIS DEWEY EVERETT, 1906. 
(P.G. 1907.) 

Enlisted in the U.S.N.R.F. June 24, 1918, as a 
Seaman of the 2nd class, and was commissioned En- 
sign, U.S.N.R.F., Sept. 30. Released from active 
service Feb. 4, 1919. 

ADDISON ORVILLE FAY, 1918. 

Enlisted in July, 191T, as Volunteer Ambulance 
Driver in the A.A.F.S., S.S.U. 71. Discharged in 
Nov., 1917. 

SAMUEL PRESCOTT FAY, 1903. 

From May to Oct., 1915, served with the American 
Ambulance in France, mostly at Nieuport and Woes- 
ten, Belgium, with Section 1 of the Field Service. In 
Aug., 1917, went to Plattsburg; and received a com- 
mission as 1st Lieutenant in the F.A., Nov. 27. Went 
to Camp Devens and was assigned to Battery A, 302nd 
F.A. Went to Fort Sill Feb. 27, 1918, to train as an 
aerial observer, and was thereafter attached to the 
A.S. Sailed in July, and after one month at Tours 
joined the 91st Aero Squadron, 1st Army Observation 
Group, which was engaged in long distance deep recon- 
noissance back of the German lines. Officially credited 
with the destruction of two German planes in the Ar- 
gonne-Meuse offensive. After the armistice the squad- 
ron went to Coblentz as part of the Army of Occupa- 



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tion, and remained there until Apr. 16, 1919. Dis- 
charged at Camp Mills May 15, 1919. The following 
is a citation for exceptional bravery : 

"Lieut. Fay on October 23rd, 1918, during a flight 
over the lines, while acting as protection for a photo- 
graphic mission, gave proof of his bravery and devo- 
tion to duty. When attacked by more than thirty 
enemy planes, his pilot, Lieut. Houghton, was severely 
wounded, and it was largely owing to Lieut. Fay's 
coolness, courage and directions that the plane com- 
pleted its mission. His thoroughness and willingness 
have made him a most valuable observer. Lieut. Fay 
has officially been credited with the destruction of 
two enemy planes." 

Also cited in General Orders 21, Hq. A.S., 1st Army, 
A.E.F. 



WILLIAM RODMAN FAY, 1903. 

Entered the service of the A.R.C. Sept. 17, 1918, 
and sailed for France Sept. 19. Assigned by the 
A.R.C. as Searcher and Home Communication Repre- 
sentative of the A.R.C. with the 1st Division of the 
U.S. Army, with rank of 2nd Lieutenant. In March, 
1919, was also made Divisional Representative of the 
A.R.C. with the 1st Division, and promoted to the 
rank of Captain. With the 1st Division in France, 
and then in Germany, until May 20. Then left for 
Paris, arrived in the U.S. June 22, and received dis- 
charge from the A.R.C. 

Editoe's Note: J. B. Fenno, Jr., report delayed; see page 273. 



104 SAINT MARK'S SCHOOL IN THE 

GEORGE RICHMOND FEARING, 3rd., 1917. 

Arrived in Paris July 17, 1917. Despatched to 
the front with S.S.U. 71 Aug. 1. Enlisted Sept. 15 in 
the U.S.A.A.S. Wounded Aug. 25, 1918. Discharged 
March 11, 1919, at St. Aignan. Received the follow- 
ing citation for the Croix de Guerre, ordre du Corps 
d'Armee : 

"Conducteur tres brave et tres courageux. Charge 
de transporter des blesses a travers une zone violem- 
ment bombardee a ete blesse en accomplissant sa mis- 
sion. A voulu continuer a conduire lui-meme sa voiture 
apres s'etre fait panser sommairement." 



HAMILTON FISH, Jr., 1906. 

Made Captain of the 15th N.Y. Infantry (colored) 
Jan. 15, 1917. Arrived at Brest, France, Jan. 31. 
Joined the French 4th Army as a combat unit, entering 
its lines Apr. 8, 1918. Took part against the German 
offensive July 15, and the final offensive in Sept. Re- 
ceived a citation Sept. 30 at the capture of the village 
of Sechoult. Graduated from the Army General Staff 
College at Langres, France. Served with the Army of 
Occupation, 4th Division. Returned with the 77th 
Division in Apr., 1919. Received a commission as 
Major of Infantry in March, 1919. The citation 
follows. 

"Captain Hamilton Fish, Jr., Commander of Com- 
pany K of the 369th Infantry Regiment, being on fur- 
lough, came back to spend his furlough with the Regi- 



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merit, knowing it had been engaged. Has rendered 
precious services — exposed incessantly to danger — 
before, during, and after the taking of a village, and in 
establishing contact between the Regiment and his bat- 
talion." 



WASHINGTON ALLSTON FLAGG, 1914. 

Enlisted at Newport, R.I., in the U.S.N.R.F. as a 
Quartermaster of the 2nd class, March 26, 1917. Pro- 
moted to Quartermaster of the 1st class Sept. 1. Put 
in command of S.P. 56. Commissioned as Ensign Jan. 
1, and attached to U.S. Torpedo Boat Morris as Navi- 
gator, Jan. 15, 1918. Detached Apr. 1, put in com- 
mand of S.P. 2840, and sent to Nantucket for special 
duty. Detached Oct. 1, and reported for duty on 
U.S.S. New Mexico. Discharged from active service 
Dec. 13, 1918. 



ROLFE FLOYD, 1891. 

Commissioned Major in the Med. R.C. in May, 1917, 
and went on active duty June 11 at Allentown, Pa. 
Sailed overseas July 2 as Chief of Medical Service of 
Base Hospital 15, organized at Roosevelt Hospital, 
N.Y. Nov. 1, 1917, appointed on the Chief Surgeon's 
Staff, A.E.F., and worked seven months on hospital 
organization, establishing about 25,000 beds and re- 
porting on many more. June 1, 1918, appointed Com- 
manding Officer, Base Hospital 15. This was the 
largest base hospital near the front, with 3,000 beds. 



106 SAINT MARK'S SCHOOL IN THE 

Returned to the U.S. Feb. 25, 1919, and was honorably 
discharged March 3. Promoted to Lieutenant-Colonel 
in Nov., 1918. Awarded the Medaille d'Honneur by the 
French Government in Apr., 1919. 



JAMES RUSSELL FORGAN, 1918. 

Enlisted in the Coast Artillery Oct. 15, 1918, and 
was sent to Fort Monroe, Va. Assigned as a Private 
to Company G, O.T.S. Discharged Nov. 21, 1918. 



LUDLOW SEBRING FOWLER, 1917. 

Entered the U.S.N.R.F. March 27, 1917, as 3rd 
class Gunner's Mate. Made 2nd class Quartermaster 
on board U.S.S. Morris in June, and 1st class Quar- 
termaster at Pelham Bay, in Nov. Passed the mental 
examination for Ensign in Jan., 1918, but owing to 
defective eyesight did not receive the commission of 
Ensign until May. Served as executive officer on 
U.S.S. Sachem until release from service, Jan. 2, 1919. 



THOMAS POWELL FOWLER, 1913. 

Enlisted in the U.S.N.R.F. June 2, 1917, as a 
Seaman of the 2nd class. Ordered to Saunders Range, 
Md., for training, then to Norfolk, Va., for duty on 
the U.S. coast guard cutter Pamlico. Entered the 
Officer Material School at Hampton Roads Naval 
Base in Feb., 1918, with the rating of Cadet. Cora- 



WAR AGAINST GERMANY 107 

missioned as Ensign upon graduating, June 10. Served 
as Aide to Admiral Brittain, Commander of District 
Forces Afloat, 5th Naval District, for three months, 
and was then ordered to duty as Executive Officer on 
the submarine-chaser 192. Served subsequently in this 
capacity on submarine-chasers 200 and 202. Obtained 
release from active duty Dec. 15, 1918. Still an En- 
sign in the U.S.N.R.F. [Oct. 28, 1919.] 



FREDERICK FRALEY, Ex-1893. 

Entered active service in July, 1918, and was made 
Captain in the Med. C, U.S.A., A.E.F. Attached as 
Neurologist to Base Hospital 76, and stationed at 
Vichy, France, from Sept., 1918, to Feb., 1919. Hon- 
orably discharged in March, 1919. 



ALDEN FRENCH, 1917. 

Enlisted in Company B, Harvard Unit, S.A.T.C., 
as a Private, Oct. 10, 1918, and was discharged Dec. 
14, 1918. 



FRANCIS ORMOND FRENCH, Ex-1908. 

Enlisted as Coxswain in the U.S.N.R. at Newport 
in May, 1917. Later served seven months on U. S. 
Submarine-chaser 325. Promoted to Chief Petty 
Officer Apr. 1, 1918. Sent to inactive duty Dec. 
6, 1918. 



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HENRY ADAMS FROTHINGHAM, 1890. 

Made Captain, U.S.A., Feb, 14, 1918, and assigned 
to Hq., Northeastern Department, Boston, Mass. At 
present [Oct. 30, 1919] on duty in the same place. 



LIVINGSTON FRYER, 1906. 
[Does not answer. Lieutenant, A. E. F.] 

GEORGE ALLON FULLER, 1918. 

Enlisted as a Private, March 29, 1917, in the First 
Corps of Cadets, Boston. Made Corporal July 5, in 
the 1st Mass. Engineers. 'Sailed overseas Sept. 26 with 
the 101st U.S. Engineers. In the Toul sector with 
them from March, 1918, to June, being made a Ser- 
geant May 15; in the Aisne-Marne defensive in July; 
the Chateau-Thierry offensive in July and Aug., being 
made Sergeant of the 1st class July 29; and in the St. 
Mihiel offensive in Sept., 1918. At the Engineer Can- 
didates' School, Langres, France, from Oct. 4 to Nov. 
18, and graduated with certificate. Transferred back 
to the 101st Engineers in Dec. Commissioned 2nd 
Lieutenant, Corps of Engineers, March 20, 1919. 
Landed at Boston Apr. 4, and was discharged Apr. 29, 
1919. 



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HOMER GAGE, Jr., 1914. 

Joined the A.F.S. in June, 1917, and continued 
in it until Sept., then enlisting in the U.S. Army as a 
Private in the Ambulance Service: S.S.U. 31 (under 
A.F.S. regime); S.S.U. 643 (under A.E.F. regime). 
Gassed and slightly wounded while in the S.S.U. 31. 
Served in the fight for the Bois d'Avocourt ; Morthomme 
and Hill 304 ; Hill 344 ; and in general in the Verdun 
sector for over a year. The Section was also engaged 
in the entire second battle of the Marne, and later in 
the Vosges. 



STEPHEN GALATTI, 1905. (P.G. 1906.) 

Joined the A.F.S. in France Sept. 1, 1915, and was 
Assistant Director from Jan., 1916, to Oct., 1917. 
Received a commission in the U.S. Army as Captain, 
U.S.A.A.S., Oct. 10, in France. Promoted to Major 
Oct. 20, 1918, and discharged May 12, 1919. Cited 
to the order of the regiment, 66th French Division, 
Jan., 1916, Croix de Guerre. The citation follows. 

"A pendant quinze jours assure nuit et jour, sur une 
route de montagne difficile et constamment battue par 
les projectiles ennemis, I'evacuation de nombreux 
blesses, avec un zele et un devouement digne de tous les 
eloges." 



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HAROLD Deforest gale, 1915. 

Enlisted as a Private of the 1st class in the 
S.E.R.C, Aviation Section, June 23, 1917. Attended 
the Ground School, University of Illinois. Primary 
training at Wilbur Wright Field, Dayton, Ohio. Com- 
missioned Jan. 29, 1918, 2nd Lieutenant, S.R.C., Avia- 
tion Section, and was made Flying Instructor at Elling- 
ton Field, Houston, Tex. Instructor in Gas Engines 
at Camp Dick, Dallas, Tex., and Flying Instructor at 
Payne Field, West Point, Miss., until Jan. 1, 1919. 
Made Post Supply Officer at Payne Field until dis- 
charged, July 16, 1919. 



GEORGE PEABODY GARDNER, Jr., 1906 

Received commission as Captain in the Ordnance 
R.C., U.S.A., Dec. 12, 1917, and resigned Apr. 15, 
1918. Enrolled as Quartermaster of the 3rd class, 
U.S.N.R., Apr. 23, 1918. Commissioned as Ensign, 
U.S.N.R.F., Sept. 9. Ordered to inactive duty Jan. 
8, 1919. 



JAMES ALBERT GARLAND, Ex-1913. 

Private in Company H, 302nd Infantry, at Camp 
Devens from Sept. 20 until Nov. 9, 1917. Received a 
medical discharge on the latter date. 



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JOHN GASTON, 1917. 

Enlisted as a Private in the Marine Corps Jvlj 3, 
1918. Sailed overseas Oct. 22, joined the 5th Regi- 
ment of Marines Nov. 12, and marched with them into 
Germany, becoming a member of the Army of Occu- 
pation. Dec. 1, promoted to Corporal. Feb. 1, 1919, 
promoted to 2nd Lieutenant. Received honorable dis- 
charge June 1, 1919. 



WILLIAM GASTON, 1915. 

Enlisted in the U.S. Navy in Apr., 1917, and was 
transferred to the U.S. Naval Air Station, Squantum, 
Mass., in May. In Sept. transferred to the U.S. Naval 
Air Station at Hampton Roads, Va., and served there 
as an Instructor. Assigned to the Royal Flying Corps, 
School of Aerial Gunnery, Fort Worth, Tex., in Feb., 
1918. Received foreign orders in March, 1918. At- 
tached to the Royal Naval Aviation Service, Hornsea, 
Yorkshire, England, in Apr. ; to the Royal Naval Air 
Force, School of Navigation and Bomb Dropping, 
Stonehenge, Wilts, England, as an Instructor for one 
month, in May ; and to the U.S. Northern Bombing 
Squadron, St. Nylevert, France, in July. While in 
England, operated with the corps which crossed the 
English Channel to make air raids, and in France pi- 
loted bombing and fighting planes on the Belgian and 
French fronts. Attached to the U.S.A.S., Milan, 
Italy, in Aug., and made a flight across the Alps. 
From Sept. to Dec, 1918, attached to No. 214 Squad- 



112 SAINT MARK'S SCHOOL IN THE 

ron, R.A.F., in France. Ordered home in Dec, 1918, 
and relieved from active duty in Feb., 1919. Ap- 
pointed Ensign Jan. 2, 1918, and Lieutenant (j.g.) 
Dec. 12, 1918. Obtained a pilot's license. Naval Re- 
serve Flying Corps. Recommended for honors by the 
British Navy; and awarded the U.S. Navy Cross for 
distinguished service overseas. [Report by William 
A. Gaston.] 



LANGHORNE GIBSON, 1918. 

Entered the U.S.N.R.F. in July, 1918, and trained 
for two months as a Seaman of the 2nd class at the 
Pelham Bay Naval Training Station. Was then as- 
signed to U.S. Destroyer Evans, and served as a Sea- 
man of the 1st class until Dec, 1918, when released 
from active service. 



CURTENIUS GILLETTE, 1892. 

Apr. 11, 1917, went to Fort Slocum, N.Y. Oct. 8, 
joined the 110th Engineers, 35th Division, Camp Doni- 
phan, Okla., and Dec. 10 the 13Tth Infantry at the 
same camp. In Apr., 1918, at Evacuation Hospital 
No. 16; in Aug., in the Argonne-Meuse sector in 
France; and in Feb., 1919, with the Army of Occupa- 
tion in Germany. Joined the 35th Division, 110th 
Engineers, in March. Returned to the U.S. in Apr., 
and Apr. 29 was mustered out of service at Camp Mer- 
ritt. Promotions were as follows: 1st Lieutenant, 



WAR AGAINST GERMANY 113 

M.R.C., in March, 1917; Captain, M.R.C., in Aug.; 
Major, M.R.C., in Aug. ; and Lieutenant-Colonel, Med. 
C, in Apr., 1919. 



FREDERICK WILLIAM WILSON GRAHAM, 
Jr., 1913. 

Volunteered, and attended the O.T.C. at Fort Ni- 
agara. Made 2nd Lieutenant in the Regular Army, 
19th F.A., San Antonio, Tex. Sailed March 4, 1918, 
and served at the front from Aug. 1 to Nov. 11. Took 
part in four major offensives. Then served with the 
Army of Occupation, and returned in July, 1919. Made 
1st Lieutenant in Oct., 1917. Discharged Aug. 16, 
1919. Received the following citations, for "distin- 
guished conduct in action": 

"One of the many instances of his bravery and self- 
sacrifice occurred on or about October 15, 1918, while 
the battery was being shelled by the enemy. Lieuten- 
ant Graham ordered his men to a position of safety, 
and without thought of personal danger, relieved the 
observation guard, taking over the position himself 
until the shelling had ceased." 

"On November 10, 1918, near Vilney, France, when 
his battery was ordered to prepare a new forward po- 
sition, he went forward with a few men and carried out 
the mission in person, being under most severe shell 
fire, with practically no shelter available. This mis- 
sion he could very properly have delegated to some 
other officer of his battery." 



114 SAINT MARK'S SCHOOL IN THE 

HARRY FRENCH GRAHAM, 1917. 

Volunteered and enlisted as a Private in the 19th 
F.A. in Feb., 1918, and sailed for France May 25. At 
St. Die for three weeks, and then went to the Saumur 
Artillery School. Passed the examinations for 2nd 
Lieutenant, but did not then receive the commission 
because of the armistice. Served with the Army of 
Occupation. Commissioned 2nd Lieutenant Apr. 30, 
1919, 19th F.A. Landed in America July 22, 1919, 
and was honorably discharged Aug. 13, 1919. 

ARCHIBALD CARY GRATZ, 1909. 

Enlisted June 22, 1917, in the U.S.A.A.S. with the 
French Army, S.S.U. 511. Stationed at AUentown, 
Pa. Sailed overseas Dec. 2-6, 1917, and was attached 
to the A.R.C. Military Hospital No. 1 at Neuilly for 
several months. Later served with the American 79th 
Division, at Argonne-Meuse, and afterwards with the 
French Army of Occupation in Germany. Returned 
to the U.S.A. March 27, 1919, and was discharged 
from the service Apr. 4, 1919. 

GEORGE NEWTON GREGORY, Ex-1906. 
[Does not answer.] 



STANLEY RIDDELL GREENE, Master. 

1st Provisional Training Regiment from May 12 to 
Aug. 15, 1917. Captain, Company M, 302nd Infantry, 



WAR AGAINST GERMANY 115 

from Sept. 1, 1917, to Jan. 10, 1919. Captain, Com- 
pany F, 313th Infantry, from Jan. 10 to March 1, 
1919. Service in France was from July 12, 1918, to 
June 28, 1919. Discharged July 24, 1919. 



CLEMENT ACTON GRISCOM, 3rd, 1918. 

Sept. 15, 1918, entered the S.A.T.C, Yale Unit, 
F.A., as a Private, and was made Sergeant Oct. 8. 
Discharged from the S.A.T.C. Dec. 19, 1918, and com- 
missioned 2nd Lieutenant, F.A., O.R.C. 



WILLIAM SUMNER TEAL HALCOMB, 1911. 
[Address not known. Major, U.S.A.] 

EUGENE HALE, Jr., 1894. 

In 1917 went abroad in the service of the A.R.C. 
and established a canteen near Verdun. After this 
canteen had been put into successful operation, re- 
turned to this country, and in May, 1918, enlisted in 
the U.S. Army, without seeking a commission. [Report 
from the Secretary's Office, Yale University.] 

BARTOW HARWOOD HALL, 1906. 

Made 2nd Lieutenant, F.A., May 10, 1917. At- 
tended the 1st Training Camp, Fort Riley, Kansas, 
from June 15 to Aug. 15, 1917, and was made 1st 



116 SAINT MARK'S SCHOOL IN THE 

Lieutenant, F.A., Aug. 15. Sailed for France Sept. 
10, and attended the Artillery School at Saumur, 
France, from Oct. through Dec, 1917. Assigned to 
the 6th F.A., 1st Division, Jan. 1, 1918, and in com- 
mand of Battery E, 6th F.A., from March 1, 1918, to 
Feb. 1, 1919, except during absences from June 17 to 
31, July 28 to Aug. 14, and Oct. 4 to Jan. 1, 1919. 
Made Captain Apr. 25, 1918. Wounded June 17, 1918, 
and again Oct. 4, 1918. Received divisional citations 
March 1, 1918 and July 20, 1918. Occupied the fol- 
lowing sectors : Toul, Montdidier, Saiserais. Took part 
in the following engagements : Cantigny, Montdidier- 
Noyon defensive, Soissons, St. Mihiel, Argonne. With 
the Army of Occupation from Jan. 1 to Feb. 1, 1919. 
Received orders to return for discharge Feb. 1, which 
was received Apr. 9, 1919. The citations are not 
accessible. 



LOUIS GORDON HAMERSLEY, 1912. 

Served in the A.A.F.S. under A. Piatt Andrew, 
"Vosges Detachment, from Dec. 2, 1916, to June 2, 
1917. Entered Fontainebleau as a Civilian, by special 
permission, June 11, 1917, and graduated as Aspirant 
Civil of Artillery, Sept. 3. Commissioned 1st Lieu- 
tenant, F.A., U.S.R., Oct. 2. Joined F. Battery, 6th 
F.A., 1st Division, and went into line Nov. 6. Served 
on all fronts with the 1st Division. Took part in the 
following battles: Cantigny (Montdidier defensive); 
Soissons ; St. Mihiel ; Argonne. Spent four months and 
a half with the Army of Occupation near Coblentz. 
Recommended for the Distinguished Service Cross. 



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LOUIS BRANCH HARDING, 1904. 

Enlisted in the F.A. in Apr., 1918. Sergeant In- 
structor in the F.A. Replacements, Camp Jackson, S.C., 
until July. Joined the F.A., C.O.T.S., Camp Taylor, 
Ky., in July. Transferred to the Reserve as 1st Lieu- 
tenant about the end of 1918. 



OLIVER CARLEY HARRIMAN, 1913. 

Enlisted as a Seaman of the 2nd class, U.S.N.R., 
June 1, 1917. Commissioned Ensign, U.S.N.R., Oct. 1, 
and resigned Jan. 31, 1918. Commissioned Ensign in 
the U.S. Navy Feb. 1. Commissioned Lieutenant ( j.g.) 
U.S.N., July 1, and resigned Jan. 3, 1919. 



EDWARD HARRIS, 2nd, 1914. 

Enlisted May 15, 1917, in the O.T.C., and trained 
at Madison Barracks. Graduated as Captain of In- 
fantry Aug. 15. Assigned to Camp Dix, N.J., and 
attached to the 311th Infantry. Assigned in Sept. to 
the 153rd Depot Brigade, commanding Company 18, 
5th Battalion, 153rd Depot Brigade. From June to 
Sept., 1919, on special duty in charge of Camp Dix 
Casual Detachment. Assigned in Sept., 1918, to Com- 
pany 55, 15th Battalion, 153rd Depot Brigade. Dis- 
charged from the service as Captain Dec. 21, 1918. 



118 SAINT MARK'S SCHOOL IN THE 

GEORGE UPHAM HARRIS, 1917. 
[Does not answer. 2nd Lieutenant, A.E.F.] 

RICHARD MACY HARRIS, 1912. 

From Jan. to May, 1918, trained at the S.M.A., 
Mass. Institute of Technology. Commissioned 2nd 
Lieutenant, A.S.,S.C., May 2. Stationed during May 
and June at Taylor Field, Montgomery, Ala. June 27, 
sailed for England as Casual. From July to Nov., 
1918, stationed at Catterick, Yorkshire, England, with 
the Day Bombing Squadron. Sailed for home Nov. 29. 
Jan. 2, 1919, accepted commission as 1st Lieutenant 
in the O.R.C., and was discharged from active duty. 

FREDERICK HENRY HARVEY, 1914. 

Entered the service March 1, 1917, enlisting at 
Key West, Fla., in the S.E.R.C. as a Sergeant. Re- 
ceived training at the Curtiss Civilian Training School 
at Miami, Fla,, under government supervision. Com- 
missioned June 9, 1917, as 1st Lieutenant, Aviation 
Section, S.R.C. July 10, ordered to Kelly Field, San 
Antonio, Tex. Aug. 12, ordered to Toronto, Canada, 
in command of the 27th Aero Squadron. Oct. 17 
ordered to Scott Field, Belleville, 111., as Assistant 
Officer in Charge of Flying. Dec. 23, ordered to Elling- 
ton Field, Houston, Tex., in the same capacity. Feb. 
12, 1918, ordered to Carruthers Field, Fort Worth, 
Tex., as Officer in Charge of Flying. Promoted to 



WAR AGAINST GERMANY 119 

Captain Feb. 20. June 5, ordered to Mineola to the 
First Provisional Wing. Held the position of Wing 
Flight Officer, Commanding Officer, Whitehall Field and 
Roosevelt Field respectively. Oct. 2, ordered overseas in 
charge of a detachment of 120 pilots to report at 
Issoudun for training as chasse pilots. Returned Feb. 
12, and was discharged Feb. 14, 1919. 



ROBERT RALSTON HASBROUCK, 1907. 

Went on active duty as Captain of Cavalry, O.R.C., 
Leon Springs, Tex., May 5, 1917. Transferred to 
the Tank Service Dec. 15, and commissioned Captain, 
Tank Corps, Dec. 22. Sailed Dec. 28, and landed at 
Liverpool Jan. 12, 1918. Attached to the British 
Tank Corps from Jan. to March. Served as Recon- 
naissance Officer, American 302 Tank Brigade, from 
Apr. to June. Returned to the U.S. in July. Com- 
manding Officer, Tank Corps Schools, Camp Polk, 
Raleigh, N.C. Commanding Officer 311th Tank Centre 
Hq. to Nov. 11, 1918. Commanding Officer, Tank 
Corps Schools Franklin Cantonment, Camp Meade, 
Md., from Dec, 1918, to June 24, 1919. Discharged 
at Camp Meade June 24, 1919. 



JAMES ANDERSON HAWES, 1890. 

Abroad from March to Nov., 1918, as a War Cor- 
respondent, A.E.F., under the Intelligence Department; 
also certified with the B.E.F. under the Ministry of 
Public Information ; Special Representative of the 



120 SAINT MARK'S SCHOOL IN THE 

New York Tribune; Special Correspondent for reports 
to the War Department Commission on Training 
Camps ; Representative of Inter-Fraternity Conference 
abroad ; and in charge of clubs in Paris and London, 
and of work for members of Delta Kappa Epsilon. 



HAROLD HAYES, 1907. 

Rejected several times because of defective eye- 
sight. Went to France with the Red Cross, Transpor- 
tation Department, in Jan., 1918. Worked in Paris 
as a Private, in connection with automobile service, 
and in the Director's office. Continued in the latter 
for five months, and was then promoted to 1st Lieu- 
tenant, and Aide to the Director. Made Captain in 
Dec, and Major in Jan., 1919. Returned home in 
Apr. Served as Aide to the Director, and some of the 
time in Paris as Acting Director of Transportation. 
The Department had a personnel of 1,500, and as 
many automobiles, with warehouses at fourteen ports 
and operating points all over France. All Red Cross 
material and all workers were under the jurisdiction 
of this office. Was offered work on several other com- 
missions, but declined it. Received the following deco- 
rations : Field Service Medal and the Medaille des Epi- 
demics. The citations are not accessible. 



EDWARD WHITTIER HELLIER, 1914. 

Entered the British Royal Flying Corps as a Cadet, 
Sept. 3, 1917. Received a commission as 2nd Lieu- 



WAR AGAINST GERMANY 121 

tenant in Jan., 1918, and was Instructor in flying for 
nine months. Made 1st Lieutenant, R.A.F., Apr. 1, 
1918. Went overseas in Sept., and returned Apr. 3, 
1919. 

JOHN HELLIER, 1918. 

Served for two years in the Yale Battery. [Report 
by Walter H. Hellier.] 



WALTER HARMON HELLIER, 1912. 

With the A.A.S. from June to Nov., 1915, and the 
Royal Flying Corps, British Army, as Cadet, from 
Nov. 26, 1917, to July 10, 1918. 2nd Lieutenant 
from July 10, 1918, to Feb. 8, 1919. 



CHARLES ANTHONY HINKLE, 1914. 

Entered the U.S.N.R.F. at Newport, R.I., Apr. 13, 
1917, as a Seaman of the 1st class. Served on several 
patrol boats stationed at Newport, R.I., New Bedford, 
Mass., and Norfolk, Va. In Dec, transferred from 
Norfolk to the office of Aide for Information, Newport, 
R.I. In June, 1918, transferred to take charge of the 
office of Aide for Information placed by the Cape Cod 
Canal, and given the temporary rank of Chief Yeoman. 
At the signing of the armistice the office on the Cape 
Cod Canal was closed. Then transferred back to New- 
port to await discharge, and was released from active 
service as a Seaman of the 1st class Jan. 11, 1919. 



122 SAINT MARK'S SCHOOL IN THE 



JAMES GAFF HINKLE, 1917. 

Enlisted June 22, 1918, at Camp Devens, Mass., 
and sailed for France July 5, arriving July 12. As- 
signed to Hq. Troop, 76th Division, June 25 ; trans- 
ferred to Hq. Company, 3rd Depot Division, Sept. 22 ; 
transferred to the St. Aignan Casual Camp Nov. 13; 
transferred to Company G„ 9th Provisional Regiment, 
A.E.F., University of Beaune, March 8, 1919. Ap- 
pointed Corporal Aug. 23, 1918, and Sergeant Sept. 
4, 1918. Discharged at Camp Devens July 10, 1919. 



CHARLES GOUVERNEUR HOFFMAN, 1909. 

Volunteer Field Ambulance Driver in the Section 
Sanitaire Harjes, attached to the 26th Division, 6th 
Army Corps of France ; and served at the front, chiefly 
in the Montdidier sector, from July to Oct;, 1915. 
For its work in the war the Section received four army 
and three divisional citations, entitling its members to 
the Fourrageres of the Croix de Guerre and the Me- 
daille Militaire. At the 1st Plattsburg O.T.C., N.Y., 
in May, June and July of 1917. Recommended for a 
commission in the Intelligence Corps, U.S.A. Ratifica- 
tion being delayed, was placed upon the reserve list. 
Enlisted Sept. 20, 1917, as a Cadet in the Imperial 
Royal Flying Corps. Trained in Canada and Texas, 
and was commissioned in Toronto in Apr., 1918. Grad- 
uated in England as a Service Pilot ; passed through 
the Midland School of Special Flying; and was made 



WAR AGAINST GERMANY 123 

Instructor at Shawbury Camp, Salop, with rank of 
1st Flight Lieutenant, R.A.F, Flew until demobilized 
there in Feb., 1919. 



STODDARD HOFFMAN, 1911. 

From Nov., 1915, to May, 1916, Field Ambulance 
Driver (Section Sanitaire Harjes) ; attached to the 
French Army. Took part in the battle of Verdun. 
The Section received two army and five divisional ci- 
tations. Received the following distinctions : Fourragere 
de la Croix de Guerre, and Fourragere de la Medaille 
Militaire. Trained six months in 1917 for the U.S. 
Army at Governor's Island. Enlisted in the British 
Royal Flying Corps in Sept., 1917, at Toronto, Can- 
ada, with rank as Cadet until Jan. 1, 1918. From 
Jan., 1918, until March, 2nd Lieutenant, abroad; and 
from March to Sept., 1st Flight Lieutenant abroad. 
Honorably discharged in Sept., 1918, because of 
wounds received. 



WILLIAM MITCHELL VAIL HOFFMAN, 1916. 

Served on the Mexican border from June to Nov., 
1916, in the 1st F.A., Mass. N.G. Enlisted in the 1st 
Depot Battalion, S.C, Nov. 17, 1917, in New York 
City, with the rank of Private of the 1st Class. Ar- 
rived in France Dec. 27. Transferred to the Corps 
of Intelligence Police Apr. 9, 1918, with the rank of 
Sergeant. Arrived in the U.S. May 29, 1919, and was 
honorably discharged at Camp Mills, L.I., June 3, with 
the rank of Sergeant. 



124 SAINT MARK'S SCHOOL IN THE 



MARK WATSON HORNE, 1914. 

At the 1st R.O.T.C, Plattsburg, N.Y., from May 
10 to Aug. 15, 1917, and on the latter date was com- 
missioned 2nd Lieutenant of Infantry, Company K, 
302nd Infantry, 76th Division, stationed at Camp 
Devens. From Aug. 28 to July 4, 1918, served at Le 
Courneau, and at St. Amand until Nov. 15. Oct. 22 
transferred to the 301st Military Police, stationed at 
St. Amand; and Nov. 10 this was transferred and 
stationed at Treves, Germany, and became 1st Gen- 
eral Hq., Military Police Battalion. Promoted to 1st 
Lieutenant May 12, 1919. Arrived in the U.S. July 
10, and was discharged Aug. 1. 



CHARLES HURD HOWELL, 1909. 

In Sept., 1915, enlisted in the Royal Flying Corps, 
and was commissioned 2nd Lieutenant Dec. 13. In 
July, 1916, accompanied General Haig in his campaign 
on the Somme. Later in service in the English Coast 
Defence against raids, and in charge of anti-aircraft 
gun crews. Trained in England at Brooklands and at 
Croydon. Attached in France to the 12th and 13th 
Squadrons, and to Hq. Served in England as Instruc- 
tor to the 49th and 44th Squadrons at No. 2 Auxiliary 
School of Aerial Gunnery, and to the 45th, 61st and 
39th Squadrons at Grantham. Commissioned 1st Lieu- 
tenant July 1, 1917; Captain Sept. 1, 1918; and de- 
mobihzed Jan. 25, 1919, at Thetford, England. Men- 
tioned in the Victory Despatches from England in 



WAR AGAINST GERMANY 125 

Nov., 1919, for "splendid service during the war." 
[From "New England Aviators," Houghton Mifflin 
Co., 1919.] 



GEORGE DAWSON HOWELL, Jr., 1911. 

Enlisted in Jan., 1916, as a Seaman of the 2nd 
class in the Naval Militia of N.Y., and received ap- 
pointments as follows : Apr. 5, 1917, Ensign, 
U.S.N.R.F.; Sept. 15, Ensign (temporary), U.S.N. ; 
June 1, 1918, Lieutenant (j.g.) (temporary), U.S.N. ; 
Sept. 21, Lieutenant (temporary), U.S.N. Resigned 
from the service July 17, 1919. On convoy duty from 
Sept., 1917, until the armistice, serving on U.S.S. New 
Orleans and U.S.S. Des Moines; and on station duty 
in North Russia from May 1, 1919, to July 17. 



ALFRED OTTO HOYT, 1911. 

Commissioned as 1st Lieutenant in the Ordnance De- 
partment June 1, 1917. Served in Washington and 
New York with the Inspection Division, Ordnance De- 
partment, until Apr. 20, 1918. Sailed for Europe 
Apr. 28, and reached the A.E.F. May 6. Stationed 
at an Ordnance Depot near Chaumont from June to 
Sept., teaching in a school on the subject of the care 
and the handling of ammunition. Sept. 27, ordered 
to Hq., 2nd Army, at Toul, and remained there until 
Apr., 1919, as an Ammunition Inspector for the Army. 
March 9, promoted to the rank of Captain. Sailed 
for America May 6, landed May 20, and was discharged 
at Washington, May 23, 1919. 



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ELISHA DYER HUBBARD, Ex-1898. 

Joined the Yale Mobile Hospital Unit No. 39 as a 
Truck Driver in Aug., 1917. Sailed for France on 
S.S. Baltic, as one of the first 30,000 American Vol- 
unteers. The Baltic had 2800 men on board, and took 
twenty-five days in crossing. She was torpedoed the 
last day by a submarine in the Irish Sea, a fifteen-foot 
hole being torn in her bow. Beginning in the spring of 

1918, spent nine months at the front, acting as Surgi- 
cal Assistant. Returned in the latter part of Jan., 

1919, after eighteen months' service overseas. 



FREDERICK BROWN HUMPHREYS, 1895. 

Began active service as 1st Lieutenant in the Med. 
R.C. Aug. 22, 1917. Served for varying periods at 
the Rockefeller Institute and as Chief of Laboratories 
in the Base Hospital at Camp Lee, and at General 
Hospital 12, Biltmore, N.C. Joined the A.E.F. July 
12, 1918, and served as Chief Laboratory Officer at 
the Vittel-Contrexeville Hospital Centre, Vosges. Upon 
the break-up of this centre following the armistice, was 
assigned to Base Hospital 36, and returned with it to 
America. Discharged from the service Apr. 21, 1919, 
at Camp Jackson, S.C. Promotions were as follows : to 
Captain, Feb. 11, 1918; to Major, Nov. 14, 1918; and 
to Lieutenant-Colonel Feb. 14, 1919. 



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ARTHUR MIDDLETON HUNTER, 1907. 

Enlisted at Newport, R.I., May 25, 1917, and was 
called to active service Nov. 12. Held the rating of 
Boatswain's Mate, 2nd class, U.S.N.R.F., through 
active service, and confirmed rating in Feb., 1919. Com- 
manding Officer of U.S.S. Speedway, S.P. 407, at- 
tached to the New London District Base, from July, 
1918, to Feb., 1919. The Speedway was a patrol boat 
fifty-five feet long. Made the trip to Key West, Fla., 
in Sept. and Oct., 1918, to be attached to aviation 
work on the Gulf of Mexico. Released from active 
service at Newport, R.I., Feb. 18, 1919. Enlistment 
will terminate May 25, 1921. 



JOSEPH - BIEGLER HUSBAND, 1904. 

Served in the U.S.N.R.F. Enlisted Jan. 6, 1918, as 
a Seaman of the 2nd class, at the Great Lakes Naval 
Training Station. Commissioned as an Ensign May 
22, 1918. Foreign service, from Aug, 3 to Dec. 31, 
1918, was as follows : on U.S.S. Noma, doing cargo 
convoy escort duty in the Bay of Biscay ; and on U.S.S. 
Destroyer Benham, doing troop convoy escort duty 
out of Brest. 



ARTHUR EMLEN HUTCHINSON, 1901. 

From Nov., 1916, to May, 1917, served with the 
A.A.F.S., S.S.U. 9, in France. In Nov., 1917, com- 



128 SAINT MARK'S SCHOOL IN THE 

missioned 2nd Lieutenant, Adjutant General's Depart- 
ment, and assigned to the War Risk Insurance Sec- 
tion, A.E.F. In Apr., 1918, attached to the 32nd 
French Army Corps as Liaison Officer, later with the 
staff of the 4th Corps (American), and the 33rd 
French Army Corps. From Dec, 1918 to May, 1919, 
with the Franco-American section of the Military Gov- 
ernment of Paris. Received the Croix de Guerre from 
the 32nd French Army Corps. Promoted to 1st Lieu- 
tenant as of July, 1918. The citation follows. 

"Avant I'entree en guerre de I'Amerique s'est engage 
dans une section sanitaire automobile, avec laquelle il 
a pris part aux combats devant Verdun. Place 
ensuite par I'armee americaine comme Officier de liaison 
apres du 32e Corps d'Armee Fran9ais s'y est dis- 
tingue en accompagnant de jour et de nuit les Officiers 
de liaison dans les endroits les plus difficiles." 



FRANCIS ABBOTT INGALLS, Jr., 1913. 

Commissioned 2nd Lieutenant of Infantry, R.C., 
Aug. 15, 1917, and assigned to Company E, 302nd In- 
fantry, from Sept. 1 to Nov. 10, 1918. Attached to 
Company B, 163rd Infantry, from Nov. 11 to Dec. 20, 
1918. Assigned to Company L, 309th Infantry, from 
Dec. 26 to March 31, 1919; and to the 3rd Battalion, 
309th Infantry, from Apr. 1 to June 5. Commissioned 
1st Lieutenant of Infantry, N.A., Dec. 31, 1917. Dis- 
charged at Camp Dix, N.J., June 5, 1919. Served 
overseas from July 5, 1918, to May 28, 1919. 



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ADRIAN ISELIN, 2nd, 1905. 

Enrolled in the U.S.N.R.F. Apr. 29, 1917, in the 
3rd Naval District as Chief Boatswain's Mate, and 
was called into active service July 10. Spent the first 
two months training at Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, N.Y. 
Ordered Sept. 10 to report to the Commanding Officer 
of the Port Jefferson Training Station, Port Jefferson, 
L.I., and was there given command of the patrol boat 
S.P. 107. Transferred from Port Jefferson to U.S.S. 
Madawasha, then doing transport duty between New 
York and St. Nazaire, France, and made a trip on her. 
Received orders on her return to New York to report 
to the Commanding Officer of the Rockaway Air Sta- 
tion at Rockaway, L.I., and on reporting was given 
command of U.S.S. Privateer, S.P. 179, then doing 
salvage and patrol work for the Station. Apr. 6, 
1918, received commission as Ensign. Continued in 
command of S.P. 179 until Dec. 28, when put on 
the inactive list. 



CHARLES OLIVER ISELIN, Jr., 1910. 

Commissioned Captain of Infantry, U.S.A., at the 
O.T.C., Fort Myer, Va., Aug. 15, 1917. Completed 
the course in trench warfare at Cambridge, Mass., Sept. 
25. Stationed at Camp Meade, Ind., from Sept. 25, 
1917, to Feb., 1919, serving in the 154th Depot 
Brigade. 



130 SAINT MARK'S SCHOOL IN THE 

OLIVER ISELIN, 1907. 

Entered the U.S. Navy March 23, 1917, as a 
Quartermaster of the 1st class. Served on S.P. 56 for 
five months at Newport and Block Island. Commis- 
sioned Ensign, U.S.N.R.F., Sept. 20. Entered the 
reserve class at Annapolis for four months. Ordered 
abroad in Feb., 1918, and served eleven months at 
Queenstown and Brest on U.S.S. Tucker, a destroyer. 
Credited with one submarine; mentioned in the Secre- 
tary of the Navy's report. Commissioned Lieutenant 
(j.g.),U.S.N., July 1,1918. 



HENRY JACKSON, Jr., 1911. 

Enlisted in the N.A. in Oct., 1917, and in Nov. 
joined the M.E.R.C., U.S.A., remaining until Sept., 
1918. Served in the Med. C, Hospital Sergeant, 1st 
Class (acting, temporary), from Sept., 1918, to Jan., 
1919; and in the Mass. State Guard, First Motor 
Corps, from May to Aug., 1918. 



ALBERT LOFTIN JOHNSON, 1915. 

Enlisted Apr. 30, 1917, in Squadron A Cavalry 
N.Y.N.G. Transferred to the A.S. Oct. 12. Gradu- 
ated from the Princeton Ground School, and was sent 
to the San Diego Flying School. Apr. 30, 1918, com- 
missioned Instructor in Duel at San Diego and River- 
side, Cal. Finished the Pursuit Course at San Diego 



WAR AGAINST GERMANY 131 

in Oct., 1918. Assistant Officer in Charge of pursuit 
work from Oct. 25, 1918, to date of discharge, Jan. 6, 
1919. 



GEORGE FREDERICK BETTS JOHNSON, 
Ex-1918. 

Entered the U.S. Marine Corps and was sent to 
Paris Island Nov. 6, 1918, having enlisted Sept. 1. 
Served during sixteen weeks of training in the 426th 
Company. Feb. 5, transferred to Philadelphia and 
placed in the 88th Company of the 1st Regiment. Apr. 
10, detailed to Quantico to shoot in the Eastern. Divi- 
sion Rifle Match, having qualified as Expert Rifleman 
at Paris Island for the year 1918. May 6 shot in the 
match and qualified again for the year 1919. May 8 
returned to Philadelphia and remained until trans- 
ferred July 1 to the Boston Navy Yard as a Prison 
Guard. July 14, 1919, discharged with the rank of 
Private. The work in Philadelphia consisted of three 
months' guard duty, and, the rest of the time, storing 
away the Company's equipment, which consisted of 
searchlights. 



THOMAS LOFTIN JOHNSON, 1913. 

Enlisted in M.G. Troop, Squadron A, N.Y.N.G. 
Cavalry, Apr. 29, 1917, which was made the 105th 
M.G. Battalion of the 27th Division, and sent to Spar- 
tanburg Oct. 8, 1917. Attained the rank of Corporal 
and remained with this organization, in C Company, 



132 SAINT MARK'S SCHOOL IN THE 

until transferred, May 1, 1918, to the 15th Aero 
Squadron of the A.S. at Hazelhurst Field, Mineola, 
L.I. Sent to the M.G.O.T.C. at Camp Hancock, Au- 
gusta, Ga., Sept. 25, and there completed the course 
shortly after the armistice. Had the choice between 
being put on the Officers' Reserve List and receiving a 
discharge. Was honorably discharged Dec. 18, 1918. 



PEMBROKE JONES, Jr., 1911. 

Enlisted in the U.S.N.R.F. Feb. 4, 1918, and was 
ordered to report for duty on the same date at the 
Bureau of Supplies and Accounts at Washington. 
Rated upon entrance as a Seaman of the 2nd class, 
and was advanced to Seaman of the 1st Class Nov. 30. 
Did duty in this bureau all the time of service, in 
charge of filing papers, etc. Discharged from active 
service Jan. 10, 1919. 



►I^RICHARD MATHER JOPLING, 1912. 

Richard Mather Jopling was born in Marquette, 
Michigan, on Sunday, July sixteenth, 1893, the son of 
James Edmund and Elizabeth Walton (Mather) Jop- 
ling. His mother was a direct descendant of Richard 
Mather, the father of Increase, and the grandfather 
of Cotton Mather. He attended the public schools 
until ill health compelled him to substitute private in- 
struction, and in 1905 entered the Third Form at the 
Fay School. Graduating in 1907 with the silver medal 
and the scholarship prize, which he had also taken in 




RICHARD MATHER JOPLING 



WAR AGAINST GERMANY 133 

1906, he entered St. Mark's in the fall, and graduated 
in five years. Here he was distinguished for his interest 
and scholarship in English and for his musical taste 
and accomplishment. A threatened heart trouble pre- 
vented him from doing much with athletics. He en- 
tered Harvard with the class of 1916, and took his 
degree with this class, though he completed the work 
for it in three years. At Harvard also he was dis- 
tinguished for literary taste and for music, and when 
in Commencement week he received an offer from the 
New York Times, it answered his strongest wishes. 
But this offer was conditional upon immediate ac- 
ceptance, and he had already signed for the Platts- 
burg Training Camp in August. With deep regret 
he declined, and gave his services to his country. 

Upon the declaration of war he offered himself at 
the Plattsburg Camp, but was rejected on account of 
being under weight. He thereupon devoted himself to 
building up his health, in the meantime working for the 
Red Cross in New York ; but again failed at Plattsburg, 
and applied for overseas duty in ambulance work with 
the American Field Service. He sailed for France on 
September the thirteenth, and took the field under 
Unit No. 66 in the district between Soissons and 
Rheims, as a Private of the first class. When the 
United States took over the Field Service the number 
of his unit was changed to 623. After the German 
drive at Chemin des Dames in May, 1918, he was cited 
for the Croix de Guerre, and the medal was found 
among his effects after his death. He received a second 
citation for bravery at Mezieres on the last day of the 
war. There he received shell-shock, but continued on 
active duty until his short furlough in England. He 



134 SAINT MARK'S SCHOOL IN THE 

there succumbed to the effects of the shock on Sunday, 
March the sixteenth. He was buried with military 
honors in Brookwood Cemetery, Surrey, near London. 
The citations follow. 

"Soldat du premiere classe Richard Jopling, de la 
Section Sanitaire Americaine 623: A tou jours fait 
preuve de reeles qualites d'endurance et d'initiative. 
S'est particulierement distingue le 27 mai a I'attaque 
de I'AisNE. Pendant I'avance fran9aise de Champagne 
(octobre-novembre 1918) s'est montre d'un devoue- 
ment a toute epreuve. A coopere a I'evacuation de 
I'Hopital de Mezieres violemment bombarde et incen- 
die par I'ennemie." 

"S.S.U. 623. Depuis de debut de I'offensive du 27 
mai a reussi a evacuer tous les blesses des postes 
avances malgre la violence du bombardement, les tirs 
des mitrailleuses, et I'atmosphere toxique que les con- 
ducteurs ont du souvent traverser. 

"Le courage et le sang-froid des conducteurs ont 
fait I'admiration des troupes qui les ont vus a I'oeuvre." 

"Sous I'energique commandement du Lieutenant 
Campbell, la Section 623 composee de volontaires 
americains a participe a toutes les actions de la Divi- 
sion d'Infanterie depuis un an. A fait I'admiration des 
troupes par le courage, le sang-froid et le mepris du 
danger de ses conducteurs, venant prendre les blesses 
aux positions avancees dans les conditions les plus 
difficiles. S'est particulierement distinguee pendant 
I'attaque de Champagne septembre-octobre 1918, et 
pendant I'evacuation de I'Hospice civil de Mezieres 
bombarde et incendie par les allemands le 10 novembre, 
circonstances ou les conducteurs de la Section ont 
rivalise de courage et de devouement." 



WAR AGAINST GERMANY 135 

In the vivid style which would have brought him suc- 
cess in journalism if he had been spared, Jopling writes 
of the devastation and wanton brutality of the Ger- 
mans in Belgium, and like McKinlock, bears witness to 
the inadequacy of America's conception of them. There 
can be little doubt that the effect upon him of these 
horrors materially lessened his chances of recovery 
from the shell-shock; but the increased work in the 
ruined areas, which he would not forsake, was also a 
large factor ; and moreover he did not cease to put his 
musical ability to daily use. Among his effects were 
found letters from three officers recommending his 
promotion to the rank of Lieutenant ; and one of his 
companions in battle tells that Jopling returned and 
saved him in the face of a heavy barrage fire. Such is 
the record of the St. Mark's boy who could not pass the 
physical examination at Plattsburg, after sacrificing 
that life work which had always been his greatest am- 
bition; the gentle, earnest, but almost over-modest boy 
we knew, who watched quietly from the side-lines at 
the football games, spent hours by himself in the music- 
room, and wrote poems for the Vindex. It teaches a 
lesson which the School sometimes needs : a just under- 
standing of the heroism required to give up the more 
popular activities and rewards, and to go courageously 
and strongly in the direction of duty. How he went 
about his work ; how patiently and skilfully he made his 
talents count, we know; but his manhood and courage 
had not the opportunities for display which are given 
to most boys. That they proved in him to be worthy 
of the greatest honors among the men that America 
sent into the war is a consummation which brings to 
his School a glory distinct from all others. The closing 



136 SAINT MARK'S SCHOOL IN THE 

lines of one of his poems in the Vindecc, written as he 
was about to graduate, are strikingly prophetic of the 
work to which his mighty ideals led him at last : 

Spirit of the School! live in us yet; 
Thy earnest, fearless ardor let us feel. 
That each disheartening combat may be met 
With boyish zeal. 

Then onward still, with never thought of rest. 
Till all the tumult of the world is past, — 
That, with a conquering courage in our breast. 
We may be men at last! 



JOHN KEAN, 1907. 

Made 2nd Lieutenant of Cavalry, O.R.C., May 8, 
1917; Aug. 15, 1917, Captain 5th Provisional Train- 
ing Regiment, Fort Myer, Va. Served with the 313th 
M.G. Battalion ; Hq. Troop, 80th Division ; 315th M.G. 
Battalion. Took part in the St. Mihiel and Meuse- 
Argonne offensives, and was wounded Oct. 4, 1918. 
Discharged June 23, 1919. 



ROBERT WINTHROP KEAN, 1911. 

Commissioned 2nd Lieutenant, F.A., U.S.R., at 

Plattsburg, in Aug., 1917, and sailed for France Sept. 
8. Assigned to the 15th F.A., 2nd Division, A.E.F., 
and served with it at the front from March to Sept., 
1918. Cited for gallantry in action in the Chateau- 



WAR AGAINST GERMANY 137 

Thierry sector. Received the Distinguished Service 
Cross for the action at Vierzy, France, July 18, 1918. 
Promoted to 1st Lieutenant, 15th F.A., Sept. 12, 

1918. Instructor in the Army Intelligence School 
from Nov., 1918, to Jan., 1919; Assistant G-2, 
3rd Army, A.E.F., from Jan. to March, 1919; and 
Asst. Military Attache, American Embassy, Paris, 
from March to May, 1919. Demobilized in May, 

1919. The citation for the action at Vierzy follows. 
"For extraordinary heroism in Action near Vierzy, 

France, 18th July, 1918. 

"Lieutenant Kean accompanied two successive waves 
of infantry in the attack on Vierzy and Villemontoire, 
July 18, exposed himself with almost reckless disregard 
of the enemy's heavy shell and machine gun fire, se- 
cured invaluable information for the Artillery as to the 
location of our own and the enemy's lines, and person- 
ally took command of an isolated 9th Infantry Machine 
Gun Detachment that had lost its officers by heavy fire. 
Lieutenant Kean on July 18th and 19th actually ac- 
companied three successive waves of the 23rd In- 
fantry, the 9th Infantry, and an attack by French In- 
fantry without rest. His endurance and courage were 
exceptional upon this occasion and upon all other 
occasions of attack by the 2nd Division." 



►I^EDWARD KEMP, Jr., 1912. 

Edward Kemp, Jr., the son of Edward Kemp and 
Josephine De Mott Kemp, was born in New York on 
the twenty-eighth of January, 1892. He tutored at 
home until he entered the Fay School, from which he 



138 SAINT MARK'S SCHOOL IN THE 

came to St. Mark's in September, 1906. He went to 
Harvard College with the class of 1916. After a year 
of preparation he went into his father's business, and 
continued in it until he entered the service. 

Kemp joined the First Armored Motor Battery of 
New York in 1916, before the United States entered 
the war. He acted on many occasions as Messenger for 
the military authorities ; and being an expert mecha- 
nician, instructed in riding motorcycles and in the 
care of engines. In the summer of 1916 he went to 
camp at Peekskill with the Battery ; and the following 
fall and winter was on call and duty day and night. 
During the severely cold weather he went to Tarry- 
town to guard the aqueduct, and also drove a motor 
truck with supplies through the snow-bound roads to 
the other men on duty. He also acted many times as 
Messenger to the various camps in New York State. 
On March the fifth, 1917, he accompanied the Motor 
Battery to Washington for the President's inaugura- 
tion procession. When returning to the armory the fol- 
lowing day, on the way up Fifth Avenue, he was ordered 
to investigate a delay involving several motors. He suc- 
ceeded in adjusting their motor troubles, and proceeded 
to report to the officer in command. At Ninety-first 
street a truck which had just been held up for the 
other cyclists turned suddenly in front of Kemp's 
machine. He tried to pass behind it, but was unable 
to do so, and was instantly killed. 

Captain Montgomery testifies to Kemp's great value 
to the service, both as an expert on motors and as an 
enthusiastic and prompt soldier, always the first to 
volunteer for any duty. Kemp was about to receive 
an officer's commission at the time of his death. He 




EDWARD KEMP, Jr. 



WAR AGAINST GERMANY 139 

was given a military funeral, which was attended by 
the Armored Motor Corps in full numbers. 

Quiet and industrious as when a boy at school, Ed- 
ward Kemp offered himself of his own free will for the 
difficult and dangerous task of guarding his country 
from the unseen, internal danger before war was de- 
clared. He is the only one of our boys who did this 
and died in the service, too soon to see the result of 
his work ; and from our memories of him it is fitting 
that he should represent the unselfishness and simple, 
modest efficiency which we hope and pray may always 
characterize our school. As long as they are properly 
prized, there is no danger that the perfect sacrifice 
which Kemp made will fail to receive the honor due 
to those who died on the battlefield. Such work as his 
precludes any admixture of self-seeking or any thought 
jf reward beyond what his conscience gave him. The 
earnestness and sweetness of his character were per- 
vasive of everything that he undertook, and won him 
the affection and substantial regard of whoever was 
associated with him. The same qualities brought him 
into the service before he was formally called upon, 
and his steadily growing efficiency in his work, already 
emphasized by his superior officer, was advancing him 
to places of honor at the time of his death. The war 
has shown in many ways how far back of the actual 
battle-line the terrible moral test penetrated; and to 
the man who fought an unseen foe, and proved America 
sound to the core, belongs as surely as to those whose 
work came afterwards the honor which shall not perish. 



140 SAINT MARK'S SCHOOL IN THE 

VANHORNE KEMP, 1914. 

Enlisted July 21, 1917, as a Private in the 9th 
N.Y.C.A.C, and was mustered into the Federal serv- 
ice Aug. 5. Stationed at Fort Hancock, N.J., until 
Feb., 1918; then transferred by request to the Aviation 
Section, S.C. Sent to Kelly Field, Tex., and placed 
on duty with the 144th Aero Squadron. Was accepted 
for the S.M.A., and ordered to the S.M.A., Princeton, 
N.J., during the latter part of Aug., 1918. Trans- 
ferred to the S.M.A. at Austin, Tex., and graduated 
Dec. 7. Discharged from the military service as a 
Private of the 1st class, A.S.A., Dec. 11, 1918. 

WILHELM PARRY KENNARD, 1904. 

Attended the first O.T.C. at Leon Spring, Tex., 
and was sent from there to Fort Monroe, Va. Re- 
signed from the service in the fall on account of very 
important personal matters for which a long leave of 
absence could not be obtained. Returned to the serv- 
ice and was commissioned Captain in the Q.M.C., 
and assigned to duty with the Construction Division. 
Served in Pennsylvania, North Carolina, South Caro- 
lina, Georgia and Florida. Was placed in charge of 
all construction work on the coast defences of Cape 
Fear, Charleston, and Savannah. After finishing the 
work at those points, was ordered overseas (after the 
armistice), and assigned to the duty of drilling recruits 
at Camp Pontenezen, France. Returned to this coun- 
try Sept. 27, 1919, and was honorably discharged Oct. 
27, 1919. 



WAR AGAINST GERMANY 141 

RICHARD KENT, 1913. 

Enlisted as a Private in the Tank Corps, June 7, 
1918. Sailed for France Sept, 25, and served in Com- 
pany B, 330th Battalion, Tank Corps. Arrived in 
the U.S. March 13, and was discharged as Corporal 
Apr. 11, 1919. 



WHITNEY KERNOCHAN, 1903. 

Went to France in Dec, 1917, as 1st Lieutenant in 
the 15th N.Y. Infantry. The designation of this regi- 
ment was then changed to the 369th U.S. Infantry. In 
Apr., 1918, it was brigaded with the French, and sent 
to the front as part of the 4th French Army until after 
the armistice. Was engaged against the German 
offensive in Champagne in Aug., and in the French 
offensive in Champagne in Sept. Took part in the 
entry into Alsace as part of the French Army of Occu- 
pation. In Dec, 1918, transferred to the Provost 
Marshal's Department. In June, 1919, discharged 
from the service in France. 



CHARLES ARCHBALD KIDDER, Jr., 1900. 

Enlisted at Seattle about Feb. 1, 1918, and trained 
at Camp Grant, Rockford, 111. Sailed for France at 
the end of March. Served in the 90th Transportation 
Company in or around Tours until July, 1919, and 
then returned to the U.S. as a Corporal. Mustered 
out early in Aug., 1919. [Report by C. A. Kidder.] 



142 SAINT MARK'S SCHOOL IN THE 

HENRY PURKITT KIDDER, 1914. 

Enlisted Dec. 3, 1914, in Battery A, 1st Battalion, 
Mass. F.A., and did Mexican border service from June 
to Nov., 1916. Detailed to the R.O.T.C, Plattsburg 
Barracks, N.Y., in May, 1917, and was discharged 
from Battery A, 1st Mass. F.A., July 11. At the 1st 
Plattsburg Training Camp, Plattsburg Barracks, 
N.Y., from May 21 to Aug. 15. Commissioned' 1st 
Lieutenant, F.A.R.C., Aug. 15, ordered to Camp Dev- 
ens, Mass., and assigned to the 302nd F.A. Did duty 
with Battery A, 302nd F.A., from Aug., 1917, to Feb., 
1918. At the Balloon School at Fort Omaha and Fort 
Sill from Feb. to June. Relieved from duty with the 
A.S. (Balloon) and rejoined Regiment, 302nd F.A., in 
June, doing duty with Hq. Company, 302nd F.A. 
Sailed for France in July, 1918, and was appointed 
Regimental Intelligence Officer in Oct. Served in the 
St. Mihiel sector, St. Hilaire offensive, Nov. 4 to Nov. 
11, 1918. Arrived in the U.S. May 3, 1919, and was 
discharged as 1st Lieutenant of the 302nd F.A. May 7. 



JEROME FABER KIDDER, 1901. 

Went abroad as a Y.M.C.A. Secretary in Dec, 
1917, and returned in Dec, 1918. Spent all the time 
in France, except for a week in England. Promoted 
twice, to Hut Secretary and then to Division Secre- 
tary. Served with colored troops. 



WAR AGAINST GERMANY 143 

FREDERICK CLINTON KIDNER, 1896. 

Commissioned at Washington as Captain, M.O.R.C, 
May 15, 1917; immediately ordered into active ser- 
vice; and sailed for England May 19 with the first 
Orthopaedic Unit, under Major J. E. Goldthwait. 
Served in England under Sir Robert Jones in his 
orthopaedic hospitals, being "loaned" to the British 
from June, 1917, to July, 1918. Then transferred to 
the U.S. forces and sent to France for instruction. 
Returned to England in Sept., and served there as 
Orthopaedic Consultant of the Base Section, No. 3, 
S.O.S., which included all American hospitals in Eng- 
land, until Jan. 22, 1919. Ordered home and to duty 
at the Base Hospital, Camp Dix, until Feb. 28. Then 
ordered to the U.S.A. General Hospital No. 36, at 
Detroit, in charge of orthopaedic service. On duty 
there until discharged, June 30, 1919. Promoted to 
Major Oct. 1, 1918. 



LAWRENCE KIMBALL, 1918. 

Enlisted Oct. 9, 1918, as a Private in the U.S. 
Marine Corps. Discharged Dec. 16, 1918. 



APPLETON KING, 1917. 

Entered the Royal Flying Corps as Cadet for 
Pilot Apr. 22, 1918. Promoted Jan. 1, 1919, to Flight 
Cadet, and discharged on the same date. 



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RUFUS HOWARD KING, Jr., 1893. 

Enlisted Aug. 4, 1917, as a Sergeant, Q.M.C. Com- 
missioned Aug. 26, 1918, as 2nd Lieutenant, Q.M.C. 
In service at Camp Dix, N.J. ; Camp J. E. Johnston, 
Fla. ; France; and with the Army of Occupation at 
Coblentz, Germany. Discharged from the U.S. Army 
Oct. 3, 1919. 



FIDELE SAMUEL ELY KOENIG, 1918. 

JomED the Harvard Unit of the S.A.T.C. Sept. 22, 
1918, and served as a Private until honorably dis- 
charged Dec. 10, 1918. 



HAROLD MORTON LANDON, 1907. 

1914-1916, Member of N.G., 1st Armored Motor 
Battery. In Oct., 1916, commissioned 2nd Lieutenant 
in the 15th N.Y. Infantry (colored). Entered the re- 
cruiting service in Jan., and Avas made 1st Lieutenant. 
The regiment was drafted into the Federal service July 
15, 1917. Sailed for Europe in Nov., 1917. At St. 
Nazaire, France, until March, 1918, when the regi- 
ment was given to the French, and became part of Gen. 
Gouraud's 4th Army in Champagne. Went into the 
sector at the left of the Aisne River, Apr. 1, and re- 
mained there until Nov. 11. Served with the 16th 
French Division for three months, and then with the 
161st until Jan. 1, 1919, seven months. Held sectors 



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in Champagne, and the last month of the war in Al- 
sace. Held the following positions in the regiment in 
order: Lieutenant in Company F; Battalion Adjutant, 
1st Battalion, for most of the campaign; Regimental 
Intelligence Officer; Liaison Officer; Regimental Adju- 
tant; and finally Battalion Adjutant again with the 
old battalion on arriving in the U.S.A. Was gassed 
July 22, 1918, and badly bruised Sept. 29 by being 
knocked down by a shell just above the Optique Sta- 
tion which caused a roof to fall, life being saved by 
helmet. In two major battles, the German Cham- 
pagne offensive, July 15-25, and the Champagne-Ar- 
gonne drive which began Sept. 26, 1918. The Regi- 
ment was the first of all the Allied armies to reach the 
Rhine because of the extreme courtesy of our General 
of Division, General Le Bouc, when we marched from 
Thann, Alsace, to Blodelsheim on the Rhine. Received 
the Croix de Guerre with Palm, and the same with Star 
finally in Alsace, when the Division had a "Prise 
d'armes." The Distinguished Service Cross was pinned 
on at Le Mans, on the way home, by Major-General 
Glenn. The Regiment left Brest Feb. 1, and arrived 
at N.Y. Feb. 12. Mustered out March 1, 1919. The 
citations follow. 

"Officier brave et devoue. Pendant la bataille de 
Champagne, dans la nuit du 21 au 22 juillet, 1918, 
charge du train de combat au cours d'une releve, a 
reussi, aide seulement d'un soldat, a faire avancer son 
convoi sous un violent bombardement d'obus toxiques 
et a le mettre a I'abri, donnant ainsi un bel example de 
courage." 

For the Distinguished Service Cross : 

"For extraordinary heroism in action near Sechault, 



146 SAINT MARK'S SCHOOL IN THE 

France, September 29, 1918. Lieutenant Landon, on 
duty as assistant liaison officer, personally carried an 
order to the assault battalion in order to insure its 
delivery, passing through heavy fire. The battalion 
commander being killed just as he arrived. Lieutenant 
Landon gave the order to the next senior, and then 
waited to see its execution. When the assaulting line 
wavered, under a terrific enemy barrage, this officer 
jumped ahead of the line and led the first wave 1000 
meters to the objective, assisting in consolidating the 
new position before he returned to regimental head- 
quarters." 

"Officier remarkable de courage et de sang-froid. A 
plusieurs reprises au cours de la bataille du 26 au 30 
septembre 1918, a etabli personnellement des liaisons 
avec les bataillons. Le 30 septembre, a installe et 
manoeuvre lui-meme un poste optique, sous un barrage 
des plus violents." 



HENRY HUTTON LANDON, Ju., 1913. 

Enlisted as 1st class Machinist Mate in the 
U.S.N.R. (Aviation), March 23, 1917. Trained at 
Palm Beach, Fla., and at Huntington, L.I. Received 
a Naval Aviator's certificate (No. 93) Aug. 31. Com- 
missioned as Ensign Sept. 1, and sailed for France 
Sept. 23. Did aerial patrol and convoy work along 
the coast until June, 1918. Commissioned as Lieu- 
tenant (j.g.) March 23. Transferred to Italy for 
training in the Night Bombing Caproni land planes in 
June. Returned to France in Oct., and received the 
grade of Lieutenant, Oct. 31. Stationed at St. Ingle- 



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vert, France, for night bombing work in connection 
with a British bombing squadron. Sailed for home 
Feb. 3, 1919, and was placed on inactive duty March 
31. 



NATHANIEL RUGGLES LANDON, 1916. 

Entered the U.S.N.R. March 24, 1917, and did 
duty at Newport, R.I., and New London, Conn., until 
Feb., 1918. Then transferred to U.S. Naval Aviation, 
and served at Akron, Ohio, and at Rockaway Beach, 
N.Y. Commissioned Ensign Sept. 20, 1918, and re- 
lieved from active duty March 4, 1919. [Report by 
H. H. Landon.] 



STEPHEN LESHER LANDON, 1903. 

Enlisted in the U.S.N.R.F. in May, 1917, and 
sailed for France in July on U.S.S. Guinevere. 
Transferred to U.S.S. Corona, and did convoy work 
along the French coast and in the English Channel. 
Commissioned Ensign in March, 1918, and served on 
U.S.S. Sigourney and U.S.S. Cummings, doing convoy 
duty for troopships. Arrived in the U.S. Jan. 19, 
and was relieved from active duty Feb. 1, 1919. 



EDWIN CUMMINGS LAWRENCE, Master. 

Sailed from New York July 23, 1917, as a Volunteer 
Driver in the A.F.S. Was assigned to Section 13. 



148 SAINT MARK'S SCHOOL IN THE 

Joined the American Army Aug. 29, and served 
throughout the rest of the war as a Corporal in Sec- 
tion 631. This section worked in Champagne, at Ver- 
dun, at St. Mihiel, on the Somme, and on the Oise, with 
the 63rd, the 60th, and the 34th Divisions of French 
Infantry. Spent four months after the armistice 
studying at the University of Rennes. Mustered out 
of the Army at Camp Mills, July 18, 1919. 



FRANKLIN WHITE LEE, 1903. 

Commissioned 1st Lieutenant, F.A., U.S.A., May 1, 
1917, and placed on active duty May 15. At the first 
Plattsburg Camp during June, July and Aug., 1917. 
Served with the 301st Ammunition Train, 76th Divi- 
sion, during the whole period of the war. Did active 
service in France from July, 1918, to Jan., 1919. Dis- 
charged from the service May 4, 1919. 



GEORGE ELIOT LEIGHTON, 1913. 

Enrolled as Ensign, U.S.N.R.F., July 26, 1918, 
and was assigned to the office of Supervisor, Naval 
Overseas Transportation Service, 3rd Naval District, 
45 Broadway, N.Y. Appointed Executive Assistant 
of the Logistic Data Board, Naval Overseas Transpor- 
tation Service, 3rd Naval District. Released from 
active duty Feb. 14, 1919. 



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JOHN LANGDON LEIGHTON, 1915. 

Enlisted as Coxswain, Apr. 16, 1917, in the 
U.S.N.R.F. Served until June on U.S.S. Harvard, 
and then on U.S.S. Taniwha. Transferred in Sept. to 
U.S. Troop Transport Leviathan, and served aboard 
her until March, 1918; then transferred to European 
waters. Ordered to Naval Hq. in London ; and in Aug. 
commissioned and attached to the Staff of the Com- 
mander of the U.S. Naval Forces in Europe, Admiral 
W.S. Sims, and served as a member of the Intelligence 
Section and Historical Section until March, 1919. 



EDWARD PARKE CUSTIS LEWIS, Ex-1918. 

Attended the Princeton R.O.T.C. in the winter of 
1917-1918, and the Princeton Summer Camp from 
July 1 to Aug. 26, 1918. Enlisted and was accepted 
in the U.S. Marine Corps in Sept., 1918. Not called 
into service because of the signing of the armistice. 



GRISWOLD LORILLARD, 1904. 

In 1916 joined the Patrol Squadron organized to 
act as a Volunteer Naval Reserve. Enlisted March 16, 
1917, at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, as a Coxswain in 
the Naval Reserve. Ordered to Newport, Hq. of the 
Second Naval District, in May, 1917. Promoted to 
Chief Yeoman in Apr., 1918, and to Ensign in Oct. 
Ordered to inactive duty Jan. 12, 1919, having served 
twenty- two months. 



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PIERRE LORILLARD, Jr., 1900. 

Commissioned Captain in the Q.M.R.C., Remount 
Service, Nov. 28, 1917, and reported for duty at 
Kansas City, Mo. Bought animals for the Govern- 
ment until Apr., 1918, and then reported to Camp 
Sherman, Chillicothe, O., as Assistant to the Com- 
manding Officer, Remount Depot 318. About June 6 
reported as Casual Officer at Camp Merritt, was put in 
command of 1500 casual colored replacements, and 
took these to France, sailing June 23. Delivered the 
detachment at Rampont about July 27. Reported to 
the Remount Service at Tours, and was made Remount 
Officer, 3rd Army Corps, on the Vesle, Aug. 10. Re- 
mained in this position through the Oisne-Aisne cam- 
paign, the Meuse-Argonne, and the march to the Rhine. 
With the 3rd Army at Nieuwied, the American bridge- 
head, until ordered home the first week in June, 1919. 
Commissioned Major, Q.M.C., Remount Service, in 
Oct., 1918. 



ERNEST LOVERING, Jr., 1916. 

Trained two years in the Harvard R.O.T.C. Dur- 
ing the first week of Oct., 1918, was sent to the In- 
fantry Officers' School at Camp Lee, Va., 28th Com- 
pany, 6th Training Battalion C.O.T.S. Demobilized 
early in Nov., 1918. Rank was that of a Private or 
a Candidate. 



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►I^ SAMUEL PIERCE MANDELL, 2nd, 1915. 

Samuel Pierce Mandell, 2nd, the son of George 
S, and Emily (Proctor) Mandell, was born in Boston 
on the twentieth of March, 1897. He first attended 
Noble and Greenough's School, and entered St. Mark's 
in the Second Form in 1910. He graduated in 1915, 
and entered Harvard in the fall of the same year. In 
the summer of 1916 he trained with the Harvard Fly- 
ing Corps at Ithaca, and in the middle of his sopho- 
more year he left college to enlist at Newport News, 
March third, 1917, some time before the United States 
entered the war. Here he qualified as a Pilot, and was 
sent, on July the twenty-fifth, to the Massachusetts 
Institute of Technology for ground work. After the 
completion of the course there, he went to Mineola, 
New York, when he received his commission as First 
Lieutenant on the fifth of November, 1917. He sailed 
overseas on the fifteenth of December. 

After a tour of instruction and instructing at Issou- 
dun. Tours, Clermont-Ferrand, Chateaudun, and Orly, 
he was on the thirtieth of August assigned to the 20th 
Aero Squadron, and the front. This Squadron was a 
part of the First Day Bombardment Group, America's 
first attempt at such work. He took part in the battle 
of St. Mihiel, where the Squadron received a citation 
for having "shown a devotion to duty and initiative 
which has not been exceeded by any troops on the 
front." He participated in seventeen raids, practi- 
cally all that were made by the Squadron, and for this 
he and almost all of the original group who still sur- 
vived were again cited, this time individually. His 



152 SAINT MARK'S SCHOOL IN THE 

last flight was also the last American air raid of the 
war. It began on the morning of November fifth with 
Mouzon as the objective, and Mandell flew number 
three in the formation. His ship was put out of com- 
mission at the height of 12,000 feet in the air ; but as it 
sank in great spirals he succeeded in righting it re- 
peatedly until within 100 feet from the ground, when 
it crashed down into a small field near Martincourt. On 
the other side of a canal near by were German troops ; 
but Mandell's observer. Lieutenant Fulton, who could 
easily have escaped, remained to extricate his com- 
panion from the wreckage. A German officer on the 
other bank ordered two soldiers across, and these, with 
first aid kits, cared for the injured man. In about 
twenty minutes the command came to march Fulton 
away, and Mandell was left propped up and still un- 
conscious by the plane. The German officer, who spoke 
perfect English, promised to send medical aid if pos- 
sible. 

The rest of the story is gleaned from the inhabitants 
of the town. Some time later a German Captain of 
Infantry came along the bank. Looking over at the 
unconscious man he took a rifle from one of the guards 
and deliberately fired a number of shots into the help- 
less American, one bullet penetrating the brain. The 
Germans were now in retreat, and it was some time 
before a detachment of the Fifth Marines, in passing 
through the town, were notified. Mandell was buried 
where he fell, but arrangements were made for a rein- 
terment, and he was later laid at rest in the little 
country churchyard on the hill nearly opposite. 

Future St. Markers will be able to think of Mandell 
and his work with less distraction than we, who feel 




SAMUEL PIERCE MANDELL, 2nd. 



WAR AGAINST GERMANY 153 

his death the more because of the manner of it. From 
their point of view, indeed, there may be something 
like historical suggestiveness in it, because of the 
glaring contrast it offers between young, generous, 
sportsmanlike American manhood, which saved the 
world, and the measureless cowardice which ruined 
Germany. It is our comfort and glory to remember 
that what Mandell and all our boys went out to fight 
was barbarism ; that they knew it, knew its implications, 
and that their hearts were animated for what they did 
by this knowledge alone. The German creed has been 
driven from the earth ; and it was driven by the power 
of that spirit which never shone more brightly than in 
Mandell. 

In him the spirit was independent and persistent to 
the last degree. In many matters in which most boys 
grow up accepting traditions and customs as they find 
them, his attitude was one of cautious inquiry: he 
built his character as it were piece by piece, utterly 
unbiassed by the consent or the prejudice of his com- 
panions. This persistent caution never degenerated 
into obstinacy, and was always accompanied by an 
eagerness to hear all the evidence. The result was a 
healthy mental balance, a tolerant, half-humorous re- 
serve, and a commanding will. These took their color 
from the open-air sportsmanship that determined his 
view of all activities, and both in the case of school 
athletics and classroom work ensured faithful effort 
and solid success. 

But there was something beyond these things and 
beyond analysis. It came direct from the heart, and 
dispelled his apparent shyness like mist ; it leaped to 
the slightest appeal, whatever that appeal might be. 



154 SAINT MARK'S SCHOOL IN THE 

The justice of his character, which made him strong 
and unfailing in the battles of life, became all at once a 
radiance of sympathy and service, kindled by respon- 
siveness and love. If this makes the injustice of his 
death harder to bear, it also teaches why he so bravely 
went forth to face it. 



WILLIAM Deforest manice, 1907. 

Commissioned 2nd Lieutenant in the 12th N.Y. In- 
fantry, N.G., July 27, 1917. Called into the Federal 
service Aug. 4. Left New York with the regiment for 
Camp Wadsworth Sept. 14. Transferred, upon the 
reorganization of the 27th Division, to the 108th U.S. 
Infantry, Oct. 1. Ordered to Washington for duty 
under the Chief of Staff in the Construction Division 
of the Army, Jan. 6, 1918. Promoted to Captain in 
the Q.M.C. March 15. Remained on duty with the 
Construction Division of the Army at Washington 
until discharged from the military service March 1, 
1919. 

ROBERT McCURDY MARSH, 1895. 

Entered the Plattsburg Training Camp May 14, 
1917. Commissioned Captain, F.A., U.S.R., Nov. 27. 
Stationed at Camp Meade, Md., with the 351st F.A., 
most of the time as Battery Commander of Battery E, 
from Dec. 15 to March 31, 1918. Stationed at the 
Lakehurst Experimental Grounds, Lakehurst, N.J., in 
charge of artillery operations in gas experimentation 
from Apr. 1 to Sept. 26. At the School of Fire, Fort 



WAR AGAINST GERMANY 155 

Sill, Okla., from Sept. 29 to Dec. 7. With the F.A., 
C.O.T.S., Camp Zachary Taylor, as Instructor. Rec- 
ommended by the Chief of F.A. and by the Director of 
Chemical Warfare for a commission as Major. Dis- 
charged Dec. 31, 1918. Commissioned as Major, F.A., 
O.R.C., Apr. 8, 1919. 



REUNE MARTIN, 1894. 

Mustered into the Federal service July 15, 1917, as 
1st Lieutenant in the 69th Infantry, N.G., N.Y., as- 
signed to Company A. Left Camp Mills, L.I., for 
France Oct. 25. From March 1 to May 31, 1918, saw 
service in the Luneville and Baccarat sectors, and July 
15-16 on the Champagne front. July 17 ordered home 
for assignment to a new division, with promotion to 
Captain. Aug. 15, assigned as Instructor, C.O.T.S., 
Camp Gordon, Ga. Discharged Dec. 16, 1918. 



TOWNSEND MARTIN, 1914. 

Entered the A.F.S. and went abroad in Apr., 1917. 
As a member of Section 29, did active work in the Ver- 
dun sector during the summer of 1917. Received the 
Croix de Guerre (a I'ordre de la division) in Aug. Re- 
signed from the ambulance in Nov. Entered the French 
Army, and was sent to the Officers' School at Fon- 
tainebleau, Dec. 18. Graduated Apr. 15, 1918, as 
Aspirant, and joined the 16th Battery, 101st Regi- 
ment of Artillery. Took part in the Marne fighting 
in July, the Ourcq offensive July 18 and the Aisne offen- 



156 SAINT MARK'S SCHOOL IN THE 

sive, west of Soissons, in Aug. Cited a second time 
(Croix de Guerre, ordre de la division) Aug. 28. In 
Sept. and Oct. held positions in Alsace. After the 
armistice, moved into Germany, and was stationed in 
the bridge-head north of Wiesbaden. Promoted to the 
grade of 2nd Lieutenant. Honorably discharged Mar. 
18, 1919. The citations follow. 

"A fait preuve comme conducteur volontaire d'une 
auto-sanitaire de beaucoup de courage et de sang-froid, 
particulierement pendant les operations de la cote 304, 
en aout 1917, ou les evacuations ont ete faites sur une 
route vue de I'ennemi et violemment bombardee," 

"Jeune aspirant americain servant sur sa demande 
dans I'Armee Fran^aise, s'est montre plein de courage 
au cours des attaques recentes. Le 28 aout, charge de 
controler un tir dont I'observation etait particuliere- 
ment difficile, n'a pas craint de traverser le barrage 
ennemi et de se porter en un point particulierement 
expose pour pouvoir mieux remplir sa mission." 

►I^ GEORGE ALEXANDER McKINLOCK, Je., 
1912. 

Geoege Alexandee McKinlock, Je., was born in 
Chicago on May the sixteenth, 1893, the son of George 
Alexander and Marion W. (Rappleye) McKinlock. He 
entered the Fay School in 1903, and St. Mark's two 
years later. He went to Harvard in 1912. He joined 
the Reserve Officers' Training Camp at Fort Sheridan 
in June, 1917; graduated in August of the same year; 
and received a commission as Second Lieutenant of 
Cavalry. Selected for service in France, he sailed on 




GEORGE ALEXANDER McKINLOCK, Jr. 



WAR AGAINST GERMANY 157 

the Kroonland September twelfth, and arrived in Oc- 
tober. He attended training schools at Gondrecourt 
and other places; was appointed on the staff of Major 
Davis, Second Brigade, Third Machine Gun Battalion, 
First Division, Liaison Officer, in February, 1918. He 
was called by General Buck to become a member of his 
staff as Intelligence Officer about April, 1918. He 
received no promotions, but had been recommended for 
a captaincy, and was killed before the recommendation 
could be acted upon, July 21, 1918. He was awarded 
the Croix de Guerre with Palm ; the Distinguished Ser- 
vice Cross ; and a recommendation for the latter a 
second time. His ribbon has two silver stars and two 
bronze stars. The recommendation for the Distin- 
guished Service Cross was as follows : 

"For exceptional gallantry under heavy bombard- 
ment and severe machine gun fire in proceeding along 
the front lines near Berzy-le-Sec to verify the position 
reports of the advanced locations of the front lines, 
and was killed while so doing." 

McKinlock was at first reported missing, and it was 
some time before a fruitless search of the hospitals and 
the testimony of witnesses identified him with an Amer- 
ican ofl^cer who had been seen to fall. Berzy-le-Sec 
had just been taken, and one hour later he was sent 
forward to verify the position of the front lines. Ac- 
cording to the testimony of a chaplain, McKinlock had 
met French officers on a similar mission, and when 
walking with them in the town of Berzy was killed by a 
sniper. The other officers took cover, and later en- 
countered the chaplain, to whom they related the occur- 
rence, describing McKinlock with accuracy. The chap- 
lain's search for his body that evening was unsuccess- 



158 SAINT MARK'S SCHOOL IN THE 

ful ; but some enlisted men informed him that a body 
had lain in the spot all day, and they believed an am- 
bulance had carried it away. Several circumstances 
combined to throw uncertainty upon this account ; but 
the final evidence, including reports from two French 
officers believed to be those whom he had joined, goes 
to establish its truth. He had been buried in a small 
garden in the town and his mother herself much later 
found the spot, marked by a cross, and an inscription 
to the "American soldier who had died gloriously for 
liberty," The chaplain, who is said to have been pres- 
ent at the burial, was himself killed shortly afterwards. 
Major-General Buck writes as follows at the end of 
one of his letters : "I need not tell you of the deep sor- 
row which fell upon me and the surviving members of 
my staif in the loss of Alexander McKinlock, who was 
loved by us all. I had selected him as a member of my 
staff on account of his splendid qualities and ability." 
"Such men are an asset to the Army and to the Nation." 
Splendid in qualities and ability and an asset to the 
Nation, is the formal estimate of McKinlock by his 
superior officer; and thus his memory will stand. But 
in the investigations due to the first uncertainty about 
his death, details of his conduct are brought to light 
which, while they sadden, are a source of abiding com- 
fort and gratitude to his old School, who knew that 
he was splendid. In the advanced telephone-station of 
the Twenty-sixth Infantry, — a little gully by the side 
of an unused road, which having been discovered by 
the enemy, was kept under heavy shell and shrapnel 
fire all day, — he quietly crouches, hour after hour, 
defenceless ; but we can almost see the characteristic 
raising of the eyebrows and the curling of the lip into 



WAR AGAINST GERMANY 159 

a half smile, as he accumulates his information. From 
a quieter zone he confesses that "with the laying aside 
of gas mask and tin helmet the zest has gone out of 
things," and quotes a colored soldier's remark that 
"if it wan't for dis shellin' and boomin' dis wah would 
not be a bad place." He briefly remarks that he "spoke 
in the Y hut" ; and then offers without comment his 
bit of evidence in regard to German brutality: "I saw 
and talked with a poor old woman who, together with 
her old husband, had had her eyes put out by the Huns 
in sheer, wanton brutality. The officers who had moved 
there shortly after the Hun retreat told me, and showed 
me pictures they had taken of the victims, and the 
worst you have read and heard do not tell the half." 
He "enjoys speaking and singing to our convalescents, 
but it breaks him all up to go through the wards and 
try to say encouraging things." 

The love of him as he was at school comes back and 
mingles with the pain when we read these things, for 
we recognize and seem to see him in them all ; strong, 
restless, affectionate, conscientious, humorous and se- 
rious at once ; and we are thankful for his life, and for 
the smile we shall never see again, but which will in the 
days to come warm and strengthen in our hearts our 
faith in all that is untainted and honorable and true. 
For to him the School owes a debt which can be paid 
only as we recognize that nothing can ever be manly 
but what is also pure and straightforward and of good 
report. His brave record will perpetually tell those 
who come after us how he was "splendid in qualities and 
ability, and an asset to the Nation" when her need was 
sore; but the living memory alone can tell of the love 
we bore him. 



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GEORGE GIBSON McMURTRY, Jr., 1895. 

Entered the 1st Plattsburg O.T.C. May 12, 1917. 
Commissioned 1st Lieutenant of Infantry Aug. 15, and 
reported to Camp Upton, N.Y., Sept. 5. Placed in 
command of Company E, 308th Infantry, Sept. 16. 
Commissioned Captain of Infantry, Camp Upton, Dec. 
31. Sailed with regiment to France Apr. 6, 1918, and 
was in foreign service from Apr. 19, 1918, to Apr. 21, 
1919. Commissioned Major of Infantry at Brulon, 
France, Feb. 23, 1919. Mustered out of service at 
Camp Upton May 12, 1919. Took part in the follow- 
ing battles and engagements : Baccarat sector, June 
21 to Aug. 4, 1918; Vesle sector, Aug. 11 to 18; Oise- 
Aisne offensive, Aug. 18 to Sept. 16; Meuse-Argonne 
offensive, Sept. 26 to Oct. 9 ; Meuse-Argonne offensive, 
Oct. 28 to Nov. 11, 1918. Received the following 
medals : U.S. Congressional Medal of Honor, Dec. 6, 
1918; French Croix de Guerre with Palm, Apr. 13, 
1919 ; Chevalier of the French Legion of Honor, May 
5, 1919. Second-in-command to Major Charles W. 
Whittlesey of the "Lost Battalion," which was cut 
off and surrounded by the German forces in the Ar- 
gonne forest for five days in Oct., 1918. This command 
was without food of any kind for over four days and 
nights, but held the position until relieved. The cita- 
tion for the Congressional Medal follows. 

"For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity above 
and beyond the call of duty in action against the enemy 
at Charlevaux, in the Forest d'Argonne, France, 2-8 
October, 1918. 



WAR AGAINST GERMANY 161 

"Captain McMurtry commanded a battalion which 
was cut off and surrounded by the enemy, and although 
wounded in the knee by shrapnel on 4t October and 
suffering great pain, he continued throughout the en- 
tire period to encourage his officers and men with a re- 
sistless optimism that contributed largely toward pre- 
venting panic and disorder among the troops, who were 
without food, cut off from communication with our 
lines. On 4 October during a heavy barrage, he per- 
sonally directed and supervised the moving of the 
wounded to shelter before himself seeking shelter. On 
6 October, he was again wounded in the shoulder by a 
German grenade, but continued personally to organize 
and direct the defence against the German attack on 
the position until the attack was defeated. He con- 
tinued to direct and command his troops, refusing re- 
lief, and personally led his men out of the position 
after assistance arrived, before permitting himself to 
be taken to the hospital on 8 October. During this 
period the successful defence of the position was due 
largely to his efforts." 

McMurtry was one of the eight Harvard University 
men who rendered distinguished service in the Great 
War selected by the Governing Boards for the Honor- 
ary Degree of Master of Arts. These Degrees were 
presented at Harvard University, June 19, 1919. 



LANSING McVICKAR, 1914. 

From June, 1916, to Nov., served with Battery A, 
1st Mass. F.A. In May, 1917, at Plattsburg; commis- 
sioned 2nd Lieutenant F.A., O.R.C., and sailed Sept. 8. 



162 SAINT MARK'S SCHOOL IN THE 

Joined the 7th F.A., 1st Division, Sept. 29, and served 
with them until discharged in June, 1919. Promoted 
to 1st Lieutenant as of Aug. 17, 1918. Wounded at 
Soissons, July 18, 1918. Twice cited (Dec. 14, 1918, 
and Aug., 1919), and was awarded the Distinguished 
Service Cross (order of Dec. 18, 1918). The citations 
follow. 

"For extraordinary heroism in action near Very on 
October 4, 1918. He volunteered and took forward a 
gun to the aid of the infantry under most hazardous 
circumstances. Despite the loss of two horses and the 
wounding of several of his men, he continued until he 
encountered an enemy barrage, from which it was 
necessary to take cover. He exposed himself to the 
barrage on five different occasions to bring in wounded 
men." 

"Second Lieutenant Lansing McVickar, 7th F.A., 
at Eglise Fontaine on October 4, 1918, and at Apre- 
mont on October 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 1918, as Executive 
Officer, repeatedly during heavy bombardment, by his 
coolness and disregard of personal safety, kept a high 
morale among his men, maintaining fine discipline and 
repeatedly enabling his Battery to perform difficult 
missions under great and unusual difficulty." 



HENRY WISE MILLER, 1895. 

Arrived in France Dec. 16, 1917. Enlisted in the 
Norton-Harjes Ambulance in June. Captain in the 
A.R.C. Left Paris in May, 1919. 



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HAROLD PALMER MILLS, 1906. 

With the 12th Company at the 2nd Plattsburg 
Training Camp. In Nov., 1917, was made 1st Lieu- 
tenant in the A.S. Attended the S.M.A. at Champaign, 
111., and at Columbus, O. In March, 1918, Supply 
Officer of the 654th Aero Squadron, Garden City, L.I., 
and Commanding Officer of the same squadron in Apr. 
Commanding Officer of the Henry J. Damm Field, 
Babylon, L.L, in June, 1918. In addition to military 
duties, built the field and established the post here, and 
then was ordered to Wantagh, L.L, for the same sort 
of work. Commanding Officer, Lufberry Field, Wan- 
tagh, L.L, in Aug., 1918. In Oct., 1918, relieved, to 
go overseas, and ordered to Garden City to await 
transportation. Made Captain in the A.S. Oct. 19, 
1918. While awaiting shipment, was Commanding Offi- 
cer and Military Instructor, Recruit Detachment, Ha- 
zelhurst Field, Mineola, L.L, in Nov. Commanding 
Officer of the 358th Aero Squadron at Mineola in Dec, 
1918. Discharged Jan. 9, 1919. 



SAMUEL FREDERIC MILLS, 1896. 

July 22, 1918, graduated from the Engineers' 
School, Camp Humphreys, Va. Also graduated from 
the Gas and Flame School, Camp Kendricks, N.J. 
Commissioned Captain. Mustered out Dec. 11, 1918. 



164 SAINT MARK'S SCHOOL IN THE 
JOHN MITCHELL, Ex-1914. 

Enlisted March 1, 1917, as Sergeant, Aviation Sec- 
tion, S.C. Trained at Miami, Fla., in the Aviation 
School until June 25, and was then commissioned 1st 
Lieutenant, Aviation Section, S.C. Ordered to France 
Aug. 15, and sailed Sept. 11 for Paris in charge of a 
Cadet detachment. Stationed at Issoudun, France, 
from Oct. to Apr., 1918, and Apr. 16 was ordered to 
join the 95th Aero Squadron, 1st Pursuit Group, 
operating in the Toul sector. Remained with this 
squadron until after the armistice. Engaged in the 
following battles : Toul sector, May and June ; Chateau- 
Thierry and Aisne River (Fismes), July and Aug.; St. 
Mihiel and Argonne, Sept. and Oct. Promoted to 
Captain Oct. 15, and assumed command of the 95th 
Squadron. The Squadron was demobilized Dec. 10. 
Arrived in the U.S. Feb. 14, and was discharged Feb. 
16, 1919. Received the French Croix de Guerre with 
Palm, awarded in Nov. by the French 6th Army for 
work on the Toul sector in May, 1918; and in Dec. 
the American Distinguished Service Cross for work on 
the Toul sector May 27, 1918. Credited with the 
destruction of four enemy planes in combat according 
to official credits in the A.E.F. at the close of the war. 
The citation for the Distinguished Service Cross fol- 
lows. 

"Mitchell, Capt. John, Manchester 95th Aero Squad- 
ron, for extraordinary heroism in action near Beau- 
mont, France, May 27, 1918. Seeing three enemy 
planes flying east over Apremont at 2500 meters, Capt. 
Mitchell unhesitatingly attacked the three machines, 
which were in close formation, despite the fact that a 



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fourth, hovering above, threatened to close in and join 
the enemy formation. He succeeded in shooting down 
the enemy machine, which proved to be a biplane re- 
turning from an important mission." 

The French citation was for bringing down an enemy 
plane behind the German lines on the Toul sector, May 
26, 1918. 



JOHN MURRAY MITCHELL, 1917. 

Entered the R.O.T.C, Plattsburg Barracks, N.Y., 
June 5, 1918. Five weeks later entered the S.A.T.C. 
at the same place, and was made Acting 2nd Lieuten- 
ant of a training company. Commissioned in Sept., 
and assigned to the Replacement Unit, Camp Grant, 
Rockford, 111. Soon transferred to the 161st Depot 
Brigade, Camp Grant, and thence in Oct. to the Camp 
Intelligence section. There when discharged in Dec, 
1918. 



GEORGE GARDNER MONKS, 1917. 

Entered the service Oct. 5, 1918, and was assigned 
to the Central M.G.O.T.S., at Camp Hancock, Ga., 
ranking as a Private. Discharged at Camp Hancock 
Nov. 25, before the completion of the course. 



BARRINGTON MOORE, 1902. 

Applied for a captaincy of Engineers, R.C., about 
Dec, 1916, and was examined in Feb., 1917. Entered 



166 SAINT MARK'S SCHOOL IN THE 

the 1st O.T.C. at Plattsburg May 8. May 20 was 
asked by Major (later Lieutenant-Colonel) Henry S. 
Graves, Chief of the U.S. Forest Service, to accompany 
him to France to prepare for the arrival of the 10th 
Engineers (Forestry) which was being sent at the spe- 
cial request of the British government to cut from 
French forests lumber and other wood materials ur- 
gently needed by the British Army at the front. Com- 
missioned Captain of Engineers, R.C., May 29 ; sailed 
June 9; arrived in Bordeaux June 18. Reached Paris 
June 20, and with Major Graves was attached to the 
stajff of Chief of Engineers, Colonel (later Brigadier- 
General) Taylor, being made responsible for supplying 
lumber and wood needed by the A.E.F. Found wood 
to be a prime military necessity, and the situation of 
the A.E.F. critical for lack of it, owing to the sub- 
marines' preventing importation, and to shortage in 
the French and British Armies. From June to Aug., 
assisted Major Graves in planning the organization 
of 18,000 troops to supply the needs of the A.E.F. in 
wood. Acquired standing timber in advance of the 
arrival of these troops, and whatever ready cut ma- 
terial could be borrowed or purchased from the French 
and British Armies. From Sept. to Feb., 1918, con- 
tinued the acquisition of standing timber, and as mem- 
ber of the Inter-Allied War Wood Committee, leased 
French sawmills. In March wood purchases of the 
A.E.F. in Europe were centralized under the General 
Purchasing Agent, Brigadier-General, then Colonel, 
Charles G. Dawes, by General Order 8, S.O.S., of Mar. 
5. Was given charge of this centralization as Chief of 
the Wood Section under the General Purchasing Agent. 
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materials for the A.E.F. from France, Switzerland, 
Portugal, Great Britain and Scandinavian countries, to 
supplement that produced from French forests by the 
Forestry Troops, the 10th and 11th Engineers. Sept. 
19, promoted to Major. Oct. 20, sailed for Washing- 
ton to represent the A.E.F. in negotiations with Swit- 
zerland for lumber; under orders to return to France 
upon the completion of the mission. The armistice 
rendered the lumber unnecessary. Honorable discharge 
received Dec. 13. Apr. 4, 1919, awarded the Cross of 
the Legion of Honor by the French Government. 



BENJAMIN MOORE, 1904. 

Made Captain of Infantry, O.R.C., Nov. 8, 1916. 
Ordered to active duty May 13, 1917, and sent to the 
R.O.T.C. at Fort Oglethorpe, Ga. Reassigned to the 
2nd Training Camp, and remained there until Nov. 4, 
when ordered to Camp Gordon and placed in command 
of the M.G. Company, 328th Infantry, 82nd Division. 
Placed in command of the 321st M.G. Battalion in 
June, 1918, and promoted to Major in July. Made 
Acting Division M.G. Officer in Sept., 1918, and Nov. 
7 was promoted to Lieutenant-Colonel, and made Divi- 
sion M.G. Officer. Served with the 82nd Division in 
the Lagny and Marbache sectors, and in the St. Mihiel 
and Meuse-Argonne operations. Transferred to Paris 
in Dec, attached to the American Commission to Ne- 
gotiate Peace, and assigned as Aide to Commissioner 
E. M. House. Discharged July 29, 1919. 



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HENRY CAREY MORGAN, 1910. 

Served with the Aviation ; passed examinations as a 
Cadet, and was sent to a flying field at Dallas, Tex. 
Taken ill, and remained in the hospital six months. 
Mustered out with honorable discharge Nov. 22, 1918. 



HEWITT MORGAN, 1913. 

Attended the Plattsburg Training Camp, and re- 
ceived a commission as 2nd Lieutenant dated Aug. 15, 
1917. Assigned to Company M, 302nd Infantry, at 
Camp Devens, Mass., and promoted to 1st Lieutenant 
Jan. 1, 1918. Sailed with the organization from New 
York July 4, 1918, and stopped at Liverpool, Win- 
chester, Southampton, Havre and Bordeaux. Assigned 
to the S.O.S. at Le Courneau for construction work, 
and sent to the Gas School at Chaumont for a week. 
Rejoined the 76th Division Oct. 10 at St. Amand for 
training replacements. When the 76th Division was 
broken up about Nov. 1, was assigned to the 163rd 
Infantry, 41st Division. Transferred to Company E, 
311th Infantry, 78th Division, about Jan. 10, 1919. 
Sailed with the organization from Bordeaux May 10. 
Landed at Newport News, and was discharged at Bos- 
ton June 3, 1919. 



MONSON MORRIS. 

Entered the service Aug. 5, 1917, with the 15th 
Infantry, N.G., N.Y., as Major, 2nd Battalion. The 



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designation of the Regiment was changed after arrival 
in the sector at the front to 369th Infantry. Served 
with the Regiment as part of the 4th French Army 
from March 6 to June 9. Base Provost Marshal, Base 
1, until July 16; Assistant to Provost Marshal General 
in charge of leave areas, prisoners of war and military 
police until Sept. 30. In charge of German Officers' 
Prison Camp at Richelieu from Sept. 30 until ordered 
home Dec. 26, 1918. Arrived in the U.S. Feb. 1, 
1919. At Camp Dix as Executive of Officers' Discharge 
Centre until muster-out, Sept. 20, 1919. 



RICHARD LEWIS MORRIS, 1893. 

Entered the F.A., C.O.T.S., at Camp Zachary Tay- 
lor, Ky., Nov. 7, 1918, and was honorably discharged 
after the signing of the armistice, Dec. 7, 1918. 



^RICHARD MORTIMER, Jr., 1907. 

Richard Mortimer, Jr., the son of Richard and 
Eleanor Jay Mortimer, was born in Carlsbad, Ger- 
many, on the twenty-sixth of July, 1888. He attended 
the Fay School, and entered St. Mark's with the First 
Form in the class of 1907. He excelled in several forms 
of athletics, being a football player, a boxer, and a 
track man. He graduated in three years from Har- 
vard College, with the class of 1910, and afterwards 
from the Law School, where he did creditable work and 
graduated with distinction. His greatest recreation 



170 SAINT MARK'S SCHOOL IN THE 

was riding, and he became well known for his skill 
and fearlessness in steeplechase and on the hunting 
field. Before the United States entered the war he 
planned to take part in whatever way he could be of 
most use, but because of poor ej^esight he was sev- 
eral times refused admission to active service. 

He enlisted in 1917 in the Aviation Section, Signal 
Corps, and was sent to the School of Military Aero- 
nautics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 
In August, 1917, he sailed for England, and there at- 
tended aviation schools. He was commissioned First 
Lieutenant, Aviation Section, Signal Corps, on the 
twenty-fifth of March, 1918, and detailed to Ferrying; 
that is, taking new planes from England across the 
Channel. In May, 1918, he was assigned to a squad- 
ron in France, and ori May the twenty-second he was 
killed while practising manoeuvres. He was buried in 
an Allied-American cemetery near Hesdin Wood, in 
the north of France. 

The charm of Mortimer's personality secured him 
friends not only among his contemporaries, but among 
older people as freely, because of the modesty and can- 
dor which never sought praise or popularity. Never 
unfair in his judgment of others, and modest in his own 
opinions, he was as a boy easily aroused to indigna- 
tion at any form of injustice and prompt to rebel 
against it ; but he never confused it with hard or un- 
pleasant duty. To a quick perception, ready intellect 
and quiet, keen wit, he brought the steady application 
and industry which assured him success in his under- 
takings. To him honor and truth were the very foun- 
dation stones of character, and fearlessness but the 
preliminary test of a gentleman. Generous and sports- 




RICHARD MORTIMER, Jr. 



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manlike in the truest sense, knightly in courage and 
courtesy, he was irresistibly drawn to the brilliant and 
perilous service in war that best answered to the de- 
lights of his beloved horsemanship, perhaps because of 
its very danger. But he brought wholesomeness and 
grace to every company and to every duty, and he did 
this less by the effect of his powers than by the in- 
describable influence of what he was. 

And beneath everything, unknown perhaps to those 
who saw him but casually, was a sweetness of disposi- 
tion seldom found in either man or woman; a respon- 
sive, eager sympathy and optimism which made his mere 
presence a privilege and a benediction. His school and 
his college and his country may honor him for his brave 
heart and his loyal devotion ; but in the hearts of his 
friends alone lies the most precious gift and memory 
of all, the spirit of a love which can never fail. 



CHARLES FREDERICK MOSLE, 1893. 

May 22, 1918, enlisted as a Private in the Regulars, 
Infantry, at Fort Slocum, N.Y. June 8, transferred to 
Camp Merritt, N.J. July 5, sailed from Hoboken with 
the Panama Recruit Company to Colon, Canal Zone, 
and in Aug. was assigned to Company K, 33rd Infan- 
try, as a Private. Dec. 1, promoted to Corporal, and 
served at Camp Gaillard, C.Z. (Culebra), and Balboa, 
C.Z. Feb. 18, 1919, discharged as Corporal, and sent 
home from Colon. 



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HENRY MUNROE, 1915. 

From May to Aug., 1917, Assistant to the Director 
of Chapters, A.R.C., National Hq., Washington, D.C. 
From Aug., 1917, to Jan., 1918, Inspector, A.R.C. 
Commission to Great Britain, with the rank of 1st 
Lieutenant; Hq., London, England. From June to 
Sept., 1918, Assistant to Director, Speakers' Bureau, 
Atlantic Division, A.R.C, New York, N.Y. 



JOHN MUNROE, 1909. 

Joined the A.A.F.S. May 6, 1916. Assigned to 
Section 3, and served at Verdun, Pont-a-Mousson and 
Monastir. Entered the French Artillery School, at 
Fontainebleau, June 8, 1917, as a Private in the For- 
eign Legion, detached to the 32nd Artillery. Appointed 
Aspirant (cadet), Sept. 3, and detached as Instructor 
to the American Artillery School, Saumur. Dec. 14, 
assigned to the 89th Regiment of Artillery, and served 
with them in Alsace in Jan., 1918; on the Somme in 
Apr. and May ; Marne-Chateau-Thierry in June and 
July ; on the Somme in Aug. ; the Aisne in Aug. ; and 
Champagne-Argonne in Sept., Oct., and Nov. Com- 
missioned Sous-Lieutenant May 15, 1918. Cited in 
order of the 57th Division, Army of the Orient, in 
Jan., 1917, and received the Croix de Guerre with 
Silver Star. Discharged Feb. 7, 1919, in Paris. Re- 
ceived the Medaille du Service Benevole in June, 1919. 
The Croix de Guerre citation follows. 



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"Volontaire de la Section Sanitaire Americaine 3, se 
distingue en toute occasion par un sang-froid et une in- 
trepidite parf aite ; en particulier, devant Verdun en 
juin 1916 sous le feu immediat et continuel de I'artil- 
lerie ennemie — en Lorraine, ou il fut I'objet d'une 
lettre de felicitations pour le devouement avec lequel il 
vint secourir les blesses en plein bombardement de Pont- 
a-Mousson le 29 juillet 1916 — enfin a Monastir en 
decembre 1916-janvier, 1917." 



ALEXANDER SLIDELL NEILSON, 1909. 

Joined the U.S.N.R.F. in Feb., 1917, as a Quarter- 
master of the 2nd class, and went on active service Apr. 
6. Served on a patrol boat until July, 1917, and was 
transferred to U.S.S. Columbia, which did transat- 
lantic convoy duty until the signing of the armistice. 
Commissioned Ensign, U.S.N.R.F., in June, 1917 ; 
Ensign, U.S. Navy, in Nov.; and Lieutenant (j.g.) 
U.S. Navy, in June, 1918. Resigned Feb. 12, 1919. 



HOFFMAN NICKERSON, 1907. 

1st Lieutenant, 71st N.Y. Infantry, mobilized to 
guard bridges, etc., from March to May, 1917. At 
the 1st Plattsburg Camp from May to August, 1917; 
commissioned Captain, Ordnance Department, Aug. 15, 
1917; Student Officer, Watervliet Arsenal, in Sept.; 
Commanding Officer, Ordnance Depot Co. 5 at Water- 
vliet and for the journey overseas until Dec, 1917, 
when the company was disbanded at Nevers, France. 



174 SAINT MARK'S SCHOOL IN THE 

Student Officer, Army Schools, Langres, France, from 
Dec, 1917, to March, 1918. Assigned to duty with 
2nd Section, General Staff, A.E.F., at General Hq., 
Chaumont, from March until Dec, 1918. With the 
American Section, Interallied Armistice Commission, 
Spa, Belgium, in Dec, 1918. Returned to America 
in Jan., 1919, and was discharged Feb. 18, 1919. 



RICHARD WINSLOW NICKERSON, 1905. 

VoLUNTEEEED in Aug., 1918, and was called to active 
duty Oct. 21. Served on Bumkin Island and at the 
U.S. Naval Training Station at Hingham. The men 
here were selected and permitted to take examinations 
which, if passed, would entitle them to a commission, 
usually as Ensign. Prevented from taking this exami- 
nation by the armistice. Honorably discharged Dec 
21, 1918. 



ROBERT BOUTELLE NOYES, 1898. 

Enlisted as a Boatswain, U.S.N.R.F., 5th Naval 
District, in June, 1917. Promoted to Ensign, 
U.S.N.R.F., July 1; Ensign, U.S. Navy (temporary 
commission) Sept. 15; Lieutenant (j.g.) U.S. Navy, 
(temporary commission) June 1, 1918; Lieutenant (se- 
nior grade) LT.S. Navy (temporary commission), Sept. 
21. Served from July to Sept., 1917, in 1st Reserve 
Officers' Class, U.S. Naval Academy; from Sept., 1917, 
to Jan., 1919, on U.S. Battleship Utah off the U.S. 
and Irish coasts ; from March, 1919, to June, 1919, 



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on U.S.S. Agamemnon, a transport running between 
New York and Brest. Resignation accepted June 25, 
1919. 

STEPHEN HENLEY NOYES, 1899. 

Entered the service Feb. 5, 1917. Served with the 
following organizations: 1st Aero Squadron, as Flight 
Commander ; 12th Aero Squadron, as Commanding 
Officer; 5th Corps Observation Group, Commanding 
Officer; Corps Observation Group, 1st Army, Com- 
manding Officer. Received the following promotions : 
Sergeant, Feb. 5, 1917, Aviation Section, S.E.R.C. ; 
1st Lieutenant, May 10, 1917, Aviation Section, 
S.O.R.C. ; Captain, Aug. 1, 1918, A.S.; Major, Apr. 
23, 1919, A.S. Discharged May 27, 1919. Was 
awarded the Distinguished Service Cross and the Croix 
de Guerre. Took part in the following engagements : 
Marne-Aisne, St. Mihiel, Argonne-Meuse. The cita- 
tions follow. 

The Distinguished Service Cross : "For extraordinary 
heroism in action near Chatel Chehery, France, Oct. 16, 
1918. Capt. Noyes volunteered under the most ad- 
verse weather conditions to stake the advance lines of 
the 82nd Division. Disregarding the fact that dark- 
ness would set in before he and his observer could com- 
plete their mission, and at the extremely low altitude 
of 150 feet, Capt. Noyes proceeded, amid heavy air- 
craft and ground machine-gun fire, until the necessary 
information was secured. On the return, due to dark- 
ness, he was forced to land on a shell-torn field, and 
proceeded on foot to Headquarters with valuable in- 
formation." 



176 SAINT MARK'S SCHOOL IN THE 

For the Croix de Guerre: "Pilote de premier ordre, 
calme et brave, modele de devoir pour son escadrille. 
Le 6 juillet 1918, attaque une premiere fois par une 
patrouille ennemie, la dispersa par sa manoeuvre hardie 
et permit k son observateur de prendre les photo- 
graphies desirees. Attaque une deuxieme fois, a abattu 
un de ses adversaires au cours d'un severe combat; a 
termine son vol par une reconnaissance a 500 metres 
d'altitude dans les lignes allemandes." 



WILLIAM RICE ODELL, Jr., 1915. 

Enlisted in the Regular army May 16, 1918, and 
was assigned to the 4th O.T.C., Camp Devens, Mass. 
Transferred to the F.A., O.T.C., Camp Zachary Tay- 
lor, Ky., June 29. Commissioned 2nd Lieutenant, 
F.A., and assigned as Instructor to the F.A., C.O.T.S., 
Camp Zachary Taylor, Aug. 16. Discharged Dec. 21, 
1918. 



JOHN DEAN GILLETT OGLESBY, 1896. 

Member of the Illinois State Council of Defence. In 
July, 1918, ordered before the U.S. Army Examining 
Board, Central Department, Chicago. Took and 
passed examinations for the Major Adjutant General's 
Department and the Inspector General's Department. 
Commissioned Major in the Adjutant General's De- 
partment, U.S. 111. N.G., and was later transferred 
to the Inspector General's Department, with rank of 
Major. Not called to active service before the armis- 
tice. 



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JAMES OTIS, 1916. 

Post of actual service in Regular army, C.O.T.S., 
Camp Lee, Va., from Sept. to Dec, 1918. Discharged 
after the signing of the armistice, before receiving re- 
serve commission. With various Plattsburg and 
R.O.T.C. camps, etc. 



IRVING PARIS, 2nd, 1911. 

Enlisted in the Navy for aviation in Apr., 1917. 
During the summer trained in a corps with twelve 
others at Mastic, L.I. Called to active service in Sept., 
and sent to the Ground School at the Massachusetts 
Institute of Technology. Thence assigned to the Naval 
Air Station at Hampton Roads, Va. Commissioned 
Ensign at Pensacola, Fla., in Feb., 1918, and returned 
to Hampton Roads. Made Lieutenant (j.g) in May, 
1918, and Lieutenant (s.g.) in Oct. Had received 
foreign orders when the armistice was signed. Ordered 
to inactive duty in Dec, 1918. 



FRANCIS PARKMAN, 1915. 

With the Harvard R.O.T.C. from Apr., 1917, to 
June, 1918; as Cadet Captain from June, 1917, to 
June, 1918. Enlisted as a Private in the U.S. Marine 
Corps, June 23, 1918, and was assigned to the 192nd 
Recruit Company, Paris Island, S.C. Transferred 
July 29th to the Balloon Company, Heavy Artillery 



178 SAINT MARK'S SCHOOL IN THE 

Force, U.S. Marine Corps, at Quantico, Va. Assigned 
to the Marine O.T.C. at Quantico Aug. 20, and com- 
missioned 2nd Lieutenant in the Marine Corps Reserve 
Dec. 16. Assigned as Instructor, 3rd Marine O.T.C. 
at Quantico, Jan. 2, 1919. Discharged as 2nd Lieu- 
tenant, Marine Corps Reserve, Jan. 29, 1919. 



HENRY PARKMAN, Jr., 1911. 

With the Harvard R.O.T.C. from May 14 to Aug. 
15, 1917; the 2nd Plattsburg O.T.C. from Aug. 27 to 
Nov. 27 ; and commissioned Captain of Infantry, 
U.S.R., Nov. 27. Reported at Camp Devens, Dec. 15, 
and was assigned to the 304th Infantry. Left Camp 
Devens for overseas July 8, 1918. Served with the 3rd 
Depot Division from July 28 to Nov. 8, and in the re- 
placement camp at St. Aignan from Nov. 8 to Jan. 8, 
1919. With the 320th Infantry from Jan. 8 to May 
30. Arrived in the U.S. May 30. Discharged at Camp 
Sherman, O., June 9, 1919. 



LIVINGSTON PARSONS, 1912. 

Commissioned 2nd Lieutenant of Infantry, Aug. 15, 
1917, at the 1st Plattsburg Camp, and Sept. 4 as- 
signed to the M.G. Company, 167th Infantry, 42nd 
Division. June 1, 1918, assigned as Liaison Officer at 
843rd Brigade Hq. July 31, 1919, wounded in action 
near Sergy, France, and returned from the hospital 
to the M.G. Company, 167th Infantry, Dec. 20, 1918. 
Took part in the following battles and engagements : 



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Luneville sector, Feb. 22 to March 24, 1918; Baccarat 
sector, March 27 to June 28; Aisne-Marne defensive, 
July 14 to 18; Aisne-Marne offensive, July 26 to 31, 
1918. With the Army of Occupation from Dec. 20, 

1918, to Apr. 5, 1919. Honorably discharged May 2, 

1919, at Camp Upton, L.I. 



SCHUYLER LIVINGSTON PARSONS, 1910. 

Joined the Norton-Harjes Volunteer Ambulance 
(later the A.R.C. Ambulance), June 21, 1917, as a 
Volontaire, and served in the Lorraine sector, Hq. at 
Baccarat, until Oct. Joined the A.R.C. in Oct., with 
the rank of 1st Lieutenant, and was promoted to Cap- 
tain in May, 1918. Served as Assistant to the Chief, 
Home Communication Service, until Jan. 12, 1919. 



WILLIAM BARCLAY PARSONS, Jr., 1906. 

Served in the A.A.F.S. during the summer of 1916. 
Called to active duty as 1st Lieutenant, Med. C, Apr. 
16, 1917, examining recruits in New York. Sailed for 
France with Base Hospital 2 May 14, which unit took 
over General Hospital 1, B.E.F., at Etretat. Served 
with this unit until May, 1918, except for two months 
in Flanders and near Bapaume while detached for duty 
with casualty clearing stations. Detached from the 
B.E.F. in May, 1918, and attached to Mobile Hospital 
2, A.E.F. The mobile hospital functioned in the Cham- 
pagne defensive July 14-15, and the Chateau- Thierry, 
St.Mihiel and Argonne offensives. After the armistice 



180 SAINT MARK'S SCHOOL IN THE 

it was ordered into Germany with the Army of Occupa- 
tion, but soon ordered to return to the U.S. Promoted 
to Captain in Aug., 1918. Mustered out of the service 
Feb. 13, 1919. 



FRANK WILLIAM PAUL, Je., 1907. 

From June 1, 1917, to Aug. 15, with the Harvard 
R.O.T.C. ; Aug. 21 to Nov. 27, 2nd O.T.C., Fort Ogle- 
thorpe, Ga.; Dec. 1 to Dec. 18, 321st Infantry M.G. 
Co., Camp Jackson, Columbia, S.C, as 1st Lieutenant 
of Infantry ; Dec. 18 to Feb. 10, 1918, 2nd Motor Me- 
chanics Regiment, S.C, Camp Hancock, Ga. ; March 
20 to Apr. 15, Assistant M.G. Instructor, A.S., S.C, 
Issoudun, France; May 1, Company A, 4th M.G. Bat- 
talion, 2nd Division, from June 14 to Oct. 14 com- 
manding Company A. Oct. 14, ordered to the U.S. as 
M.G. Instructor, with rank of Captain. From Nov. 
9 to Dec. 1, on sick leave. From Dec. 1 to 21, M.G. 
Instructor, Camp Hancock, Ga. Dec. 21, 1918, 
ordered to inactive duty with reserve. Took part in 
the following battles and engagements: May 1-18, Ver- 
dun, training sector; June 3-21, Bois de Marietta, be- 
tween the Paris-Metz road and Chateau-Thierry ; June 
21-July 6, Bois de Belleau; July 18-19, surprise attack 
south of Soissons-Vierzy ; Sept. 12-14, St. Mihiel, 
Limey-Thiaucourt sector; Oct. 6-12, Blanc Mont 
Ridge. Received the following decorations : Croix de 
Guerre, Bronze Star, Bois de Belleau ; Croix de Guerre, 
Silver Star, Vierzy ; Croix de Guerre, Palm, Blanc 
Mont Ridge. The 4th M.G. Battalion was cited sev- 
eral times. The citations for the Croix de Guerre 
follow. 



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"On July 18 and 19, 1918, near Vierzy gave proof of 
courage and initiative in commanding his company 
which was under enemy artillery and machine gun fire." 

"He led his men during the engagement of October 8, 
1918, to within a kilometer in front of the Medeah farm, 
under violent machine gun and artillery fire, without 
losing a single man. He inspected without discontinu- 
ing the arrangement of his troops under heavy artillery 
fire, displaying the greatest disregard of danger." 

"During the operations in the Belleau Woods, he 
commanded his company with much coolness and 
ability." 



JACOB CROWNINSHIELD ROGERS PEABODY, 

1884. 

Re-entered the service Oct. 8, 1917, as a Major in 
the Inspector General's Department. Served six months 
as Assistant to the Department Inspector, Northeast- 
ern Department. Transferred to New York, and served 
six months as Assistant to the Department Inspector, 
Eastern Department. Ordered overseas, and assigned 
as Inspector General, 5th Division (Regular) and 
served with them two months. Ordered to hospitals in 
the south of France on account of illness, and was in 
them three months. Arrived home Apr. 2, 1919, and 
was assigned to duty in command of the Northeastern 
District, representing the Office of the Assistant to the 
Secretary of War, Service and Information Branch, 
coordinating the different agencies that are securing 
positions for returning enlisted men of all services. 
Still in the service, Nov. 1, 1919. 



182 SAINT MARK'S SCHOOL IN THE 



HORATIO JOSE PEIRCE, 1910. 

Appointed Midshipman in the U.S. Navy in June, 
1908; commissioned Ensign in July, 1912; Lieutenant 
(j.g.) in July, 1915; Lieutenant (temporary) in Aug., 
1917; Lieutenant in June, 1918; and Lieutenant Com- 
mander (temporary) in Sept., 1918. Engaged in de- 
stroyer anti-submarine offensive and convoy escort 
operations in the Eastern Atlantic and the Bay of 
Biscay during the war. 



^BENJAMIN FRANKLIN PEPPER, 1897. 

Benjamin Franklin Pepper, the son of the late Dr. 
William Pepper and Frances Sergeant (Perry) Pepper, 
was born on the twenty-first of January, 1879, in Phil- 
adelphia. He attended Forsyth's School until 1892, 
when he entered St. Mark's in the Third Form. He 
played on two baseball teams, and was a monitor. He 
graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 
1901, and after a course in the Law School, engaged 
in the practice of law with George Wharton Pepper. 
He served in Battery A of the Philadelphia Volunteers 
during the Spanish War. After training at the Platts- 
burg Camps in 1915 and 1916, he attended the Re- 
serve Officers' Training Camp at Fort Niagara ; and 
when the L^nited States entered the war he received his 
commission as Major, was assigned to Camp Meade as 
Commander of the Second Battalion, 313th Infantry, 
and in the early spring went overseas. He had been 
married to Miss Rebecca Willing of Philadelphia, and 




BENJAMIN FRANKLIN PEPPER 



WAR AGAINST GERMANY 183 

one of their three children, the oldest son, is a member 
of the School. 

Pepper was killed in his first big engagement, the 
taking of Montfaucon by the 313th Infantry. Warn- 
ing had been sent back to the Battalion Headquarters 
that the position was all but impregnable, because the 
soldiers had come upon an open tract surrounded by 
trees in which the enemy were posted with machine- 
guns. But Pepper accepted the challenge, and himself 
went forward and led his men in the front line. In 
crossing the open space he was killed by a sniper. The 
following is a citation sent and signed by General 
Pershing: "For gallantry in action near Montfaucon, 
France, September twenty-sixth, 1918, and for his 
brilliant leadership. Major Benjamin F. Pepper (de- 
ceased) 313th Infantry, for efficient handling of his 
battalion in action September twenty-sixth, 1918, and 
for disregard of his personal safety in exposing him- 
self, thereby setting an example to the men of his 
battalion until he was killed in action in the approach 
to Montfaucon, September twenty-sixth, 1918." He 
is buried at Romagne, the American cemetery in the 
Argonne. 

Two years before the United States entered the war 
Franklin Pepper had read the signs ; and at the age of 
thirty-eight, leaving his family, laying aside a career 
of enviable prominence at the bar, and later refusing 
an opportunity for promotion because it meant as- 
signment to service at home, he gave himself up to his 
duty. The formal account of his work is brief: his 
natural, mature ability as a leader quickly raised 
him from the ranks, sent him at once to the front, and 
brought him immediately face to face with the supreme 



184 SAINT MARK'S SCHOOL IN THE 

test of the soldier, the alternative of a sheltered posi- 
tion or the pure courage to advance against unknown 
odds at any personal risk for the sake of his duty. He 
chose the latter, of course, and he died; but he had 
done his work. 

St. Mark's has among both her living and her dead 
many whose military careers were longer and more 
varied than his ; but of spontaneous patriotism and 
pure bravery she has no grander example than Frank- 
lin Pepper. Neither has America a more splendid 
example of the eternal, unconquerable spirit which gen- 
eration after generation rings true, and calls her young 
men to arms and victory in a just cause, than this 
descendant of Commodore Perry and Benjamin Frank- 
lin. It was men of the quality of Franklin Pepper who 
proved at once and conclusively that an irresistible 
force, a power whose essence was all that is true and 
just and devoted, had been aroused to decide the issue 
then and forever. And in this crisis he was a pioneer 
and a leader as surely as when he led his men against 
the hidden machine-guns of Montfaucon. For in such 
as he, grievous as his loss is to his friends and to the 
community he honored, the wise foresight and reason 
of the man were combined with the inextinguishable 
ideals of youth which we knew at school; and through 
them American manhood came into its own. 



OLIVER HAZARD PERRY PEPPER, 1901. 

Joined the Med. R.C., U.S. Army, Apr. 12, 1916, 
and was commissioned 1st Lieutenant. March 21, 
1917, automatically transferred to the Medical Sec- 



WAR AGAINST GERMANY 185 

tion, O.R.C., as 1st Lieutenant. Kept from active ser- 
vice by teaching position in the Medical School, Uni- 
versity of Pennsylvania, until towards the end of the 
1917-18 session. Ordered to active duty at Base Hos- 
pital, Camp Meade, Apr. 22, 1918, and there acted as 
Assistant Chief of Medical Service. July 3, trans- 
ferred to Base Hospital 69 forming at Camp Meade 
for overseas ; July 18 commissioned as Captain, Med. 
C. August 20 commissioned as Major in the Med. C. ; 
and Aug. 22 sailed for France ahead of Base Hospital 
69. From Sept. 20 to Oct. 31 acted as Chief of Medi- 
cal Service, Base Hospital 34, at Nantes ; and from 
Nov. 1, 1918, to June 6, 1919, acted in the same ca- 
pacity at Base Hospital 69, at Savenay, Loire Infe- 
rieure. May 2, 1919, commissioned as Lieutenant- 
Colonel in the Med. C. June 29 arrived in the U.S., 
and was honorably discharged July 3, 1919. 



WILLIAM PL ATT PEPPER, 1910. 

Entered the service as a Private at Camp Meade, 
Md., Jan. 2, 1918. Organization, Company A, 310th 
M.G. Battalion, 79th Division, N.A. Left the U.S. for 
foreign service July 8, 1918; was appointed Corporal 
Dec. 1, 1918; arrived in the U.S. from France May 26, 
1919 ; and was honorably discharged from the U.S. 
military service at Camp Dix, N.J., May 29, 1919. 
Took part in the following engagements, etc. : Sector 
304, Sept. 15 to 25, 1918; Meuse-Argonne, Sept. 26 
to 30 ; Troyon sector, Oct. 7 to 22 ; Meuse-Argonne 
offensive, Nov. 1 to 11, 1918. 



186 SAINT MARK'S SCHOOL IN THE 

RUSSELL PERKINS, 1895. 

Went to France Feb. 9, 1918, as a Y.M.C.A. Sec- 
retary, and for seven months worked in "Les Foyers du 
Soldat," stationed with the French 6th Army at the 
front. Commissioned 2nd Lieutenant of Infantry in 
Oct., 1918, in Paris. Detailed for work in the Liaison 
Service, and stationed at Bourges until Dec. 1, 1918, 
and then at Paris until March 4, 1919, when dis- 
charged. 



HAROLD PETERS, 1905. 

Enlisted in the Naval Militia of Mass. in March, 

1916, as a Seaman, and was promoted to Ensign in 
March, 1917. Called out March 31 for active duty 
on U.S.S. Rodgers as Navigating Officer. In May, 

1917, commissioned Ensign, U.S.N.R.F. Jan. 1, 1918, 
detached from the Rodgers and assigned to duty on 
the Examining Board of the 1st Naval District En- 
rolling Office. Feb. 11 assigned to U.S.S. Lakewood 
as Watch Officer, and later as Navigating Officer: 
mines and mine supplies from Norfolk to Scotland. 
From Aug. 30 to Feb. 1, 1919, served in the office of 
the Supervisor, 5th District, Naval Overseas Trans- 
portation Service. In June, promoted to Lieutenant 
(j.g). From Feb. 1 to May 10, served as Navigating 
Officer on U.S.S. Canton, and from May 16 to June 16 
as Captain on U.S. Trawler George Burton. Commis- 
sioned Lieutenant (s.g.) (temporary) June 23. Re- 
leased from active duty July 22, 1919. 



WAR AGAINST GERMANY 187 

JOHN TAYLOR PHILIPS, 1913. 

Joined the Harjes-Norton Ambulance Corps, 
A.R.C., at the end of Feb., 1916, and was sent to the 
front at Verdun March 4 for duty with S.S.U. 5, 
"Formation Harjes.' Served as Volunteer Driver five 
months, and in command of the section nine months. 
Transferred in May, 1917, to the command of Section 
21, A.R.C. Left the A.R.C. in July, 1917, and re- 
turned to the U.S. Entered the Second Plattsburg 
Training Camp, graduated as 1st Lieutenant, and was 
assigned to Camp Dix, N.J. Sent to the Balloon 
School, Fort Omaha, Neb., for special training; was 
recalled at the end of May, 1918; and proceeded to 
foreign service with the 308th F.A., May 26. Trained 
at Camp de Meucon, Brittany, three months. Re- 
turned to the U.S. in the middle of Aug., 1918, for 
duty with new troops ; was promoted to the rank of 
Captain, and assigned to Leon Springs, Tex., for duty 
with the 44th, F.A. Discharged Dec. 24, 1918. 

KENNETH TAYLOR PHILIPS, 1918. 

Sailed for France Sept. 2, 1916, and joined section 
5 of the Norton-Harjes Ambulance Corps. Returned 
to the U.S. Nov. 11, 1917, and joined the Royal Fly- 
ing Corps in Canada Jan. 2, 1918. Instructed in 
aerial fighting and high manoeuvering at Beamsville, 
Ont. Took part in the following battles : Verdun, Nov. 
and Dec, 1916 ; Champagne, Apr., 1917 ; Somme, June, 
July and Aug., 1917 ; Chemin des Dames, in the vicinity 
of Vailly and Fort Malmaison, Sept. and Oct., 1917. 



188 SAINT MARK'S SCHOOL IN THE 



RODERICK PHILIPS, 1917. 

Enlisted as a Private in the F.A., C.O.T.S., at 
Camp Zachary Taylor, Ky., Nov. 7, 1918. Dis- 
charged Feb. 1, 1919, as a 2nd Lieutenant. 



WILLIAM FREDERIC PHILIPS, 1909. 

Commissioned 2nd Lieutenant of Cavalry May 10, 

1917, and assigned to the 304th Cavalry stationed at 
Camp Stanley, Tex. Transferred to the F.A. in July, 

1918. Attended the School of Fire, Fort Sill, Okla., 
and was assigned to the 54th F.A., Camp Travis, Tex. 
Discharged Dec. 19, 1919. 



RUTHERFORD STUYVESANT PIERREPONT, 

1901. 

Jan. 23, 1918, 1st Lieutenant, A.S., S.C. ; Oct. 7, 
1918, Captain, A.S.A. — Aerial Observer (Balloon). 
Discharged March 5, 1919. Applied at the) first 
Training Camp, and was sent to Fort Myer, but was 
deemed physically unfit, and discharged. Went into 
the Red Cross as Assistant Director of the Supply 
Service, Atlantic Division. Later entered the Balloon 
School at Omaha. After the armistice continued the 
course, which ended with rating. 



WAR AGAINST GERMANY 189 

GEORGE MONROE PINCKARD, Jr., 1913. 

Entered service in the U.S. Navy Apr. 12, 1917, 
as a Seaman. Commissioned Ensign at the training 
station at San Pedro, Cal., and reported to U.S.S. 
Oregon. Served as Communication Officer on the staff 
of Admiral Fullam until Feb. 15, 1918, and was then 
detached and ordered to the command of Submarine- 
chaser 275. Detached Apr, 17, and ordered to U.S.S. 
Schley, of the destro^'^er forces, and did duty on her 
in Mediterranean waters until Jan. 7, 1919, as follows : 
Signal Officer ; Radio Officer ; Assistant Gunnery Offi- 
cer and Assistant Navigation Officer. Commissioned 
Lieutenant (j.g.) Nov. 11, 1918. Transferred Jan. 
7, 1919, to U.S.S. Buffalo at Gibraltar, to await trans- 
fer to the U.S. Sailed Feb. 3 as Casual aboard the 
Italian Transport Dante Alighieri, and was relieved 
from active duty March 26, 1919. 



WILLIAM PLATT, 1915. 

Entered the U.S.N.R.F. March 16, 1917, and re- 
ported for active service Apr. 1. Served as a Seaman 
of the 2nd class from Apr. to July in the Coast Pa- 
trol, 1st District. July 1 transferred to aviation, and 
spent Oct. and Nov. at the School of Technology, Bos- 
ton, Mass. Commissioned Ensign, U.S.N.A.S., March 
16, 1918. At the Naval Air Station, Moutchic, France, 
in Sept., and at the Naval Air Station at Brest until 
Feb., 1919. Returned to inactive duty in March, and 
was commissioned Lieutenant (j.g.) Apr. 1, 1919. 



190 SAINT MARK'S SCHOOL IN THE 



EDGAR ALLAN POE, Jr., 1915. 

Enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps in the spring of 
1917 ; commissioned 2nd Lieutenant in Oct. Stationed 
at Quantico, Va., from Oct. to March, 1918. Sent 
overseas in March with the 6th Regiment of Marines ; 
landed in France in Apr. Fought at Belleau Woods, 
2nd Lieutenant, 76th Company, 6th Regiment of Ma- 
rines, from May 30 to June 12, and was seriously 
wounded on the latter date by a fragment of a high 
explosive shell. In the hospital at Chaumont for sev- 
eral months. Subsequently transferred to London, 
and assigned to the staff of Admiral William S. Sims, 
serving from Nov. 1, 1918, to Jan. 10, 1919. Re- 
turned to the U.S. at the end of Jan., and was assigned 
to the staff of Vice- Admiral Albert Gleaves, who was in 
charge of the Cruiser and Transport Forces, with Hq. 
at Hoboken, N.J. In March, 1919, given six months' 
sick leave; and at the expiration of this leave assigned 
to U.S.S. South Dakota, Flagship of the Asiatic Fleet, 
as second in command of Marines on board the Flag- 
ship. Present rank [Jan. 6, 1920], 1st Lieutenant, 
U.S. Marine Corps. [Report by Edgar Allan Poe.] 



CHARLES KINTZING POST, 1914. 

Entered the U.S. Naval Academy as a Midshipman 
June 30, 1913, and graduated June 7, 1918, as Ensign. 
Served on board U.S.S. Wyoming as a Midshipman 
during the summer of 1917. Upon graduation from 
the U.S. Naval Academy was ordered abroad to U.S.S. 



WAR AGAINST GERMANY 191 

New York, flagship of the 6th Battle Squadron, Brit- 
ish Grand Fleet. Served with that vessel in the North 
Sea, taking part in the surrender of the German High 
Seas Fleet. Still attached to the New York [Nov. 9, 
1919]. Promoted to Lieutenant (j.g.) Sept. 21, 1918. 



GEORGE BROWN POST, Jb., 1909. 

In the Aviation Service at the Training Camp, Kelly 
Field, San Antonio, Tex. ; at Atlanta, Ga. ; Command- 
ing Officer, 83rd Aero Squadron, Rantoul, 111. ; Com- 
manding Officer, 83rd Aero Squadron, Langley Field, 
Hampton, Va, ; and Adjutant, Brindley Field, Com- 
mack, L.I., N.Y. Left the service Dec. 15, 1919, with 
the rank of 2nd Lieutenant. 



LANGDON WARD POST, 1917. 

Enlisted May 28, 1917, in the C.A.C. at Fortress 
Monroe. Transferred to the First Trench Mortar 
Battery, 1st Division, June 23, 1917, and left the U.S. 
Aug. 7. Made Corporal in Aug. In the Somervillier 
sector Oct. 27; the Toul sector Jan. 19, 1918; the 
Montdidier sector in Apr. ; Cantigny May 28 ; Sois- 
sons July 18; Ansauville sector in Aug.; St. Mihiel 
Sept. 12 ; Argonne-Meuse in Oct. ; and at the Saumur 
Artillery School Nov. 1. Returned to the U.S. May 1, 
1919, and was commissioned 2nd Lieutenant, F.A., May 
23. Discharged May 23, 1919. [Is not sure of all the 
above dates.] Was twice wounded, once on the Mont- 
didier sector and once at Soissons. 



192 SAINT MARK'S SCHOOL IN THE 

REGIS HENRI POST, 1887. 

Served with the American Ambulance at Neuilh^- 
sur-Seine: Driver, Nov., 1914; Squad Director, Dec, 
1914; Section Director Adjutant, Feb., 1915. Re- 
signed May 1, 1916. Served with the A.R.C. in Italy: 
Sergeant Major, Dec, 1917; Captain, Jan. 1, 1918. 
Stationed at Milano, Italy, in charge of accounts, office 
management, ambulance supplies, and as Censor. Hon- 
orably discharged Jan. 3, 1919. Decorated with the 
Service Medal of Italy. Knight Officer of the Crown 
of Italy. 

"To the Italian Committee of the American Red 
Cross : I am very happy to convey to you the informa- 
tion that as the result of an army citation, dated Jan. 
5, 1919, Mr. Regis Post, a captain of your highly be- 
nevolent organization, was nominated an officer of the 
Order of the Crown of Italy, notice of which will be 
officially communicated to him. The nomination was 
the result of his unwavering and highly successful work 
as an organizer in the distribution of Red Cross aid 
to the army, refugees, or wherever it was needed. This 
aid had an unqualified effect on the morale of the 
army and the people, and helped immeasurably to 
strengthen the ties of friendship already existing be- 
tween Italy and the United States. In transmitting 
this information will you be good enough to convey to 
Captain Post my most hearty congratulations on his 
winning of a distinguished honor. Sincerely, 

"The Lieutenant General Commanding the 
Army Headquarters, 

"Camerana." 



WAR AGAINST GERMANY 193 

"Royal Italian Army Minister of War. Captain 
Regis H. Post, of the Italian Commission of the Ameri- 
can Red Cross is entitled to carry the insignia estab- 
lished by the Royal decree of the 21st of May, 1916, 
number 641. Rome, 17 Nov., 1818. 

"Signed for the Minister of War, 

"F. QUPELLI." 



REGIS HENRI POST, Jr., 1916. 

Served in the Infantry at the Plattsburg Camp in 
1916, and in the Cavalry afterwards. Attended the 
Harvard R.O.T.C. in 1916 and 1917. At West Point 
in 1917 and 1918. U.S.M.A. Instructor, F.A., at the 
Training School at Camp Taylor, Ky. Present rank, 
Lieutenant, F.A., R.C. 



HOWARD POTTER, 1907. 

Entered the service in Apr., 1917. Chief Petty 
Officer, U.S. Navy, attached to U.S.S. Tingey. Put 
on the inactive list in Aug., 1919. 



JOHN HAMILTON POTTER, 1906. 

Enlisted in the U.S. Navy as a Seaman June 2, 
1917, and was discharged Sept. 22. Commissioned 
1st Lieutenant in the U.S. Army Sept. 15, and Oct. 9 
placed in command of the 59th Aero Squadron. Com- 
missioned Captain, A.E.F., Jan. 15, 1918. Trans- 



194 SAINT MARK'S SCHOOL IN THE 

f erred to Commanding General B.S. 3 as Aide-de-Camp, 
Aug. 1. Discharged Apr. 21, 1919. Made a member 
of the Victorian Order by H.R.H. the Prince of Wales 
on board H.M.S. Renown in New York, Nov. 22, 1919. 



ROBERT STURGIS POTTER, 1908. 

Entered Plattsburg in May, 1917. Commissioned 
2nd Lieutenant, Infantry, in Aug. ; 1st Lieutenant, 
A.S., in Nov. ; Captain, A.S., in Feb., 1918 ; and Major, 
A.S., in Nov., 1918. 



JOHN HILL PRENTICE, 1893. 

Went to the Plattsburg Training Camp in May, 
1917. Made Captain of Infantry Aug. 15, and as- 
signed to the 307th Infantry, 77th Division, in Sept. 
Apr. 6, 1918, went abroad with the 77th Division. 
Served in the Lorraine sector in July ; Marne-Vesle in 
Aug.; Argonne in Sept. and Oct. Made Major of In- 
fantry, Oct. 12. Wounded by a machine-gun bullet 
Nov. 4, 1918. Received the following citation: 

"Major John H. Prentice, 307th Infantry, for gal- 
lant and meritorious services when in command of the 
Second Battalion of the regiment at Oches, on Novem- 
ber 4, where he exposed himself regardless of the 
enemy's fire to make changes in the disposition of his 
battalion then under heavy enemy fire, and was 
wounded." 



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JEROME PRESTON, 1915. 

Attended the Saumur Artillery School from Dec, 
1917, to Feb., 1918, and there commissioned 2nd Lieu- 
tenant, F.A., in Feb. Served with the Tank Corps in 
England and France; as Aide-de-Camp to Major- 
General M. Bailey; and from Aug. to Dec, 1918, at 
Hq., 81st Division. At the front near Verdun Oct.- 
Nov., 1918. Returned home in Dec, 1918, and was 
demobilized in Jan., 1919. [Report by William T. 
Preston.] 



LEWIS BUTLER PRESTON, 1894. 

Tried unsuccessfully for active military service with 
the Infantry. Commissioned Captain in the S.C., and 
assigned to the Finance Division. There organized 
and was in charge of the War Credits Department. 
Temporarily assigned to the General Staff in connec- 
tion with the consolidation of all Finance Departments 
of the War Department. Promoted to the rank of 
Major, A.S (Production), and made Assistant to the 
Head of the Division of Purchases for all raw materials 
for the Bureau of Aircraft Production. After the 
armistice, made a Director of the Commercial Solvents 
Corporation, a company owned jointly by the British 
and U.S. Governments, as a Representative of the U.S. 
Government, and was for six or eight months actively 
engaged in liquidating contracts which had been en- 
tered into jointly by the U.S. and British Govern- 
ments. 



196 SAINT MARK'S SCHOOL IN THE 



WILLIAM PAYNE THOMPSON PRESTON, 
1913. 

Served with the Harjes Ambulance Unit from 
March, 1915, to Sept. At the 1st Plattsburg Camp 
from May, 1917, to Aug. Commissioned 2nd Lieuten- 
ant, F.A., Aug. 15, 1917. At the Saumur, France, 
Artillery School from Oct., 1917, to Jan., 1918. At- 
tached to the French General Staff College as Instruc- 
tor in English from Jan. to March, 1918. In the Chief 
of Staff's Office at General Hq., A.E.F., from March 
to July, 1918. At Hq., 165th Infantry, 42nd Division, 
during July and Aug. Promoted to 1st Lieutenant, 
F.A., Aug. 10. At Hq., 63rd Infantry Brigade, 32nd 
Division, serving as Aide-de-Camp to Brigadier-Gen- 
eral F. R. McCoy, in Sept., Oct., and Nov. At Hq., 
S.O.S., Tours, still as Aide-de-Camp to Brigadier- 
General McCoy, from Dec, 1918, to Feb., 1919. Re- 
turned to the U.S. and was discharged March 6, 1919. 
Served in the following actions : Champagne, Chateau- 
Thierry and Ourcq, Oise and Aisne, Argonne and 
Meuse. 

HERBERT PULITZER, 1915. 

Entered the U.S. Naval A.S. in July, 1917, as a 
Seaman of the 2nd class, and trained at the Mass. In- 
stitute of Technology and at the Air Station, Key 
West. Commissioned Ensign, and ordered to the Air 
Station at Miami ; Squadron Commander there. Or- 
dered to the Air Station at Pensacola for advanced 
training. Went abroad in July, 1918, and served at 



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the air stations at Panillac, Moutchic, La Caneau and 
Brest in France. Promoted to Lieutenant (j.g.) at 
Brest. Ordered home in January, 1919, and put on 
inactive duty at Key West in March. Total number 
of hours flying, 615. 



JOSEPH PULITZER, Jr., 1902. 

Enrolled in Naval Aviation as Quartermaster in 
Aug., 1918, for training as a Ground Officer. Trained 
at the Great Lakes Naval Training Station, and at the 
Hampton Roads, Va., Aviation Station. Commissioned 
as Ensign. Left the service in Dec, 1918. 



RALPH PULITZER, 1896. 

Enlisted in the U.S. Naval Reserve July 25, 1917, 
with the rank of Lieutenant (j.g.). Commanded a pa- 
trol boat operating off Block Island, R.I., until Jan., 
1918, and was then transferred to U.S.S. Roanoke. 
In Feb. transferred to duty in the Office of Naval In- 
telligence, New York Branch, and remained there until 
Dec. 1, 1918, when placed on the inactive list. 



JOHN GURLEY QUINBY, Jr., 1912. 

Enlisted at Norfolk, Va., in the U.S.N.R.F. as a 
Seaman of the 2nd class, June 3, 1917. Promoted to 
Ensign, U.S.N.R.F., Oct. 8, and sent to the U.S. Naval 



198 SAINT MARK'S SCHOOL IN THE 

Academy. Graduated from the Reserve Officers' Class 
Feb. 1, 1918, with the rank of Ensign (temporary), 
U.S.N., and was ordered to U.S.S. Cincinnati. Pro- 
moted to Lieutenant (j.g.) Sept. 21, 1918. Resigna- 
tion accepted June 3, 1919. 



HORACE SHERFEY RAND, Jr., 1905. 

Enlisted as a Private, U.S.A.A.S., Aug. 15, 1917. 
Transferred March 6, 1918, to the S.C, Aircraft Pro- 
duction. Promoted to Sergeant June 1, and to Master 
Signal Electrician July 1. Commissioned as 2nd Lieu- 
tenant, A.S., Aircraft Production, Nov. 5. Discharged 
Dec. 17, 1918. 



ROBERT CROCKETT RAND, 1915. 

Enlisted in the U.S. Naval Reserve Apr. 22, 1917, 
as a 1st class Seaman, and was immediately assigned to 
duty on U.S.S. Harvard, a converted yacht. The 
Harvard sailed for Brest early in June, 1917, and did 
convoy and patrol work off the coast of France and in 
the mouth of the English Channel until the signing of 
the armistice. Remained on the Harvard until May, 
1918; was then transferred to aid the Paymaster's 
force in unloading ships at Brest. Later sent to Mar- 
seilles, and thence home to be given a commission. Being 
too young to be given a commission, was released from 
active service in Sept., 1918, to return to college. 
Rating upon leaving, 1st class Boatswain's Mate. 



WAR AGAINST GERMANY 199 



WILLIAM RAND 3rd, 1913. 

Enlisted May 3, 1917, as Quartermaster of the 2nd 
class, U.S.N.R.F. Was made Chief Quartermaster 
July 15; Ensign Oct. 4; Ensign in the U.S.N. Feb. 1, 
1918; Lieutenant (j.g.) July 26, 1918. From May 3 
to July 15, attached to U.S.S. S.P. 56, commanded by 
H. S. Vanderbilt, St. Mark's '03, and then until Oct. 
4 was Aide to Lieutenant Vanderbilt on Block Island. 
From Oct. 4 until Feb. 1, attended the officers' class at 
Annapolis, Md. Feb. 1, attached to the new destroyer 
U.S.S. Gregory, building at Fore River, Mass. June 
22, 1918, sailed from New York and arrived at Brest 
July 5. Arrived at Gibraltar July 12, and from then 
until Dec. 5 was engaged in escorting cargo trans- 
ports from Gibraltar to Marseilles, except for time 
engaged in barrage work across the Straits of Gib- 
raltar, Nov. 3 to Nov. 11. Sailed for the U.S. Dec. 
5, on U.S.A. Cargo Transport Black Arrow. Resigna- 
tion from service accepted Feb. 12, 1919. 



ROBERT SAYRE FITZ RANDOLPH, 1911. 

Received a commission as 2nd Lieutenant of Infan- 
try (provisional) at the 1st O.T.C. at Plattsburg in 
1917, and sailed for overseas with the 9th U.S. Infantry 
in Sept. Made 1st Lieutenant Oct. 24, 1917, and Cap- 
tain Oct. 24, 1918. Took part in the following major 
engagements : St. Mihiel Salient ; Blanc Mont Ridge ; 
Meuse-Argonne. Wounded at the Meuse-Argonne Nov. 
3, 1918. Received the Croix de Guerre (Div. cita- 



200 SAINT MARK'S SCHOOL IN THE 

tion). With the Army of Occupation from Feb. to 
Aug., 1919. Arrived in the U.S. in Aug., 1919. 
Served during the entire period with the 9th Infantry, 
2nd Division. Resigned commission and received dis- 
charge in Sept., 1919. The citation follows. 

"Du 3 au 9 octobre 1918, pres du Blanc Mont, par 
son sang-froid, sa bravoure, son courage, a su inspirer 
a ses hommes de I'elan pour I'attaque et de la tenacite 
pour conserver les positions conquises." 



HENRY OLIVER REA, 1914. 

Entered the U.S. Navy May 24, 1917, with the rank 
of Coxswain. Sent with provisional rank of Ensign to 
Annapolis July 5, as member of the 1st Officers' Re- 
serve Class from the 4th Naval District. Upon com- 
pletion of the ten weeks' course there, the provisional 
rank of Ensign was confirmed. Ordered to report to 
U.S.S. Wyoming. U.S.S. Wyoming sailed for Scot- 
land Nov. 21, and returned Dec. 9, 1918. She was one 
of five ships which comprised the 6th Battle Squadron of 
the British Grand Fleet. Was present at the surrender 
of the German High Seas Fleet. Received promotion 
to Lieutenant (j.g.) March 4, 1918, and was honorably 
discharged Mar. 3, 1919. 



PAUL REVERE, 1918. 

At the Plattsburg Junior Camp in the summer of 
1916, and the Harvard R.O.T.C. in the summer of 
1918. Was to have gone to Camp Dix Nov. 12, the 
day after the armistice was signed. 



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JUNIUS ALEXANDER RICHARDS, 1911. 

Enlisted in the Aviation Service Apr. 16, 1917, and 
trained in the 1st Government Aviation Class, at Min- 
eola, N.Y. July 16, commissioned 1st Lieutenant, Re- 
serve Military Aviator, A.S.S.R.C., and stationed as 
Instructor and Supply Officer, 9th Aero Squadron, at 
Selfridge Field, Mt. Clemens, Mich. Nov. 20, sailed 
for England, and there organized and commanded two 
American Aviation sections of several squadrons each, 
serving in conjunction with the R.A.F., at Grantham 
and at Spittlegate. After five months of service at 
these fields, transferred to the American A.S. Hq. at 
London, in charge of the technical training of all en- 
listed men in the American Army A.S. in Great Britain. 
In July, 1918, ordered to Scotland to command all 
American Army Aviation units there; directed the 
training of squadrons for service at the front. Recom- 
mended three times for promotion to a captaincy, but 
the promotion did not go through. [In one of the 
recommendations for promotion, Captain H.S. Lees- 
Smith, of the Royal Flying Corps, notes that he never 
had to take disciplinary action against any of the 
N.C.O.'s or men under Richards' administration.] 
Honorably discharged at Garden City, N.Y., Dec. 23, 
1918. [Report by Mrs. C. F. Aldrich.] 



ARTHUR LAVALLE RICHMOND, 1914. 

Enlisted as a Sergeant, S.E.R.C, Key West Bar- 
racks, Fla., March 1, 1917, and was commissioned 1st 



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Lieutenant, A.S., S.O.R.C, June 25, at Miami, Fla. 
Stationed as Instructor at Kelly Field, San Antonio, 
Tex., from July 12 to Aug. 9. Commanding Officer, 
22nd Aero Squadron, stationed at Leaside, Toronto, 
Canada, from Aug. 13 to Oct. 22. Stationed as In- 
structor at Scott Field, Belleville, 111., from Oct. 22 
to Dec. 24 ; and at Park Field, Memphis, Tenn., from 
Dec. 26 to Oct. 15, 1918, serving as Officer in Charge 
of Flying. Commissioned Captain, S.C., Regular army, 
Feb. 18, 1918. Ordered to the Port of Embarkation, 
Hoboken, N.J., Oct. 15, and remained there until Nov. 
11, when ordered to sail. Turned back Nov. 12, and 
was discharged at Hoboken Dec. 9, 1918. 



LAWRENCE RICHMOND. Ex-1906. 

With the Harvard R.O.T.C. from June to Aug., 
1917 ; at the 2nd Plattsburg Camp from Aug. to Dec, 

1917, and commissioned 2nd Lieutenant of Infantry. 
Attached to the 313th Infantry, Camp Meade, Md., in 
Dec, 1917, and assigned to the Military Intelligence 
Division, Washington, in May, 1918. Commissioned 
1st Lieutenant of Infantry in Aug., 1918, and assigned 
to the staff of the Commanding Officer, A.E.F., Siberia, 
as Assistant Intelligence Officer, Aug. 10. Made Mili- 
tary Control Officer, Port of Vladivostok, in Dec, 

1918. Discharged at San Francisco, March 26, 1919. 



JAMES HAZEN RIPLEY, 1910. 

1st Lieutenant, 308th F.A., 78th Division. Entered 
the 2nd Training Camp at Plattsburg Barracks, N.Y., 



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in 1917. Commissioned 1st Lieutenant, F.A.R.C, and 
assigned to the 308th F.A. at Camp Dix. Did over- 
seas duty from May 8, 1918, but did not get to the 
front. Instructor in Firing, F.A., School of Instruc- 
tion, Camp Meucon, France. Returned to the U.S. 
May 16, 1919, and was mustered out May 20, at 
Camp Dix. 



SIDNEY DILLON RIPLEY, 1910. 

Entered Troop D, Squadron A Cavalry, N.Y.N.G., 
June 25, 1917, and was taken into the Federal service 
Aug, 5. Transferred to Company B, 105th M.G., 
from the Cavalry, and then to the Interpreters' Corps, 
Nov. 22, 1917, to report at Fort Jay, Governor's 
Island, to sail abroad. Left Fort Jay Jan. 4, 1918, 
for France; landed Jan. 18; was sent to Blois, and put 
in liaison service between the French and Americans 
for three months. Transferred to the Labor Bureau, 
Paris ; stayed two weeks ; and was then sent 
to Toulouse until Feb. 3, 1919, and acted as Assistant 
in procuring civilian laborers for the U.S. Army. This 
branch was called the Army Service Corps. Trans- 
ferred in Marcl^, 1919, to the Department of Criminal 
Investigation as a Detective. Worked in Bordeaux 
until departure for the U.S., July 24, 1919. Dis- 
charged Aug. 11. 



WILLIAM MacNEILL RODEWALD, Jr., 1916. 

Enlisted March 17, 1917, in the U.S.N.R.F., as a 
Seaman of the 2nd class, and was put on active duty 



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Apr. 6. Served on U.S.S. Aloha from July 5 to Sept. 15, 
and was then released from active duty to go to Har- 
vard. In 1917 and 1918 took naval courses under Lieu- 
tenant-Commander Howell, and June 8 reported for 
active duty on U.S.S. Gregory, a torpedo-boat de- 
stroyer, and left Boston for New York June 12. June 
23 sailed from New York for Brest, and arrived July 
5. From July 12 to Nov. 26 did escort duty from 
Gibraltar to Marseilles. Dec. 2, went to Venice. Jan. 
1, 1919, was made a Quartermaster of the third class, 
and Jan. 16 transferred to London, and there released 
from active duty Feb. 5. 



CHRISTOPHER RAYMOND PERRY RODGERS, 

1900. 

Entered the Naval Academy Sept. 7, 1900, and 
graduated Feb. 2^ 1904. Commissioned Ensign Feb. 
2, 1906; Lieutenant Feb. 2, 1909; Lieutenant Com- 
mander Aug. 29, 1916; and Commander Feb. 1, 1918. 
Served from the beginning of the war against Germany 
until Jan., 1918, as Navigator, U.S.S. Virginia, and 
from that time until after the armistice as Executive 
Officer, U.S.S. Nehrasha, convoying troops to Europe. 



GEORGE EMLEN ROOSEVELT, 1905. 

Entered the Federal service June 28, 1916, as Cap- 
tain, 12th N.Y. Infantry ; served on the Mexican 
border; and was discharged March 10, 1917. Again 
entered the Federal service in May, 1917, as Major, 



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with duties as Brigade Adjutant, 53rd Infantry. 
Sailed for France in May, 1918. Served in Flanders 
and France with the 27th Division. Graduated from 
the A.E.F. Line School, and the A.E.F. General Staff 
College. Transferred to the 82nd Division as Assistant 
Chief of Staff G-3, and was promoted to Lieutenant- 
Colonel and assigned as Chief of Staff, 82nd Division. 
Returned as Chief of Staff, 82nd Division, and was dis- 
charged in May, 1919. 



JOHN KEAN ROOSEVELT, 1907. 

In June, 1917, commissioned 1st Lieutenant, 
S.O.R.C., and resigned in Feb., 1918, never having been 
called to active service. In March, commissioned En- 
sign, U.S.N.R.F., Class 5, for general service, and 
placed on active service. Promoted to Lieutenant 
(j.g.). From March to Jan., 1919, attached to the 
office of the Superintending Constructor of Aircraft, 
U.S.N. , New York, and for some time detailed as Pro- 
duction Inspector on flying boats N.C. 1, 2, 3, 4. Re- 
lieved from active service in Jan., 1919. 



PHILIP JAMES ROOSEVELT, 1909. 

From Apr. 12 to Aug. 15, 1917, 1st Lieutenant in 
the A.S. Training Section, office of the Chief Signal 
Officer, War Department, Washington, D.C. From 
Aug. 15, 1917, to Feb. 21, 1919, Captain in the A.S. 
Sailed for overseas duty Oct. 29, 1917, arriving in 
France Nov. 11. Adjutant, St. Maixent A.S. Con- 



206 SAINT MARK'S SCHOOL IN THE 

centration Camp, from Nov. 29 to Jan. 5, 1918; Adju- 
tant, 1st Pursuit Group, A.S., Jan. 5 to May 30; 
Operations Officer, 1st Pursuit, May 30 to Aug. 10, 
and received the Croix de Guerre with Palm. Opera- 
tions Officer, A.S., 1st Army, from Aug. 10 to Aug. 26; 
Operations Officer, 1st Pursuit AVing, A.S., from Aug. 
26 to Dec. 23 (General Hq., A.E.F. citation, citation 
Hq. Group of American Armies, A.S.) ; General Hq., 
A.E.F., from Dec. 23 to Feb. 20, 1919. Major, A.S., 
Feb. 21. Sailed for the U.S. Feb. 25, and was dis- 
charged March 31, 1919. Took part in the following 
actions: Champagne sector (quiet), from Jan. 5 to 
Apr. 30, 1918; Toul sector (quiet), from Apr. 30 to 
June 28; Chateau-Thierry sector (active), from June 
30 to Aug. 12 ; St. Mihiel sector, from Aug. 26 to Sept. 
20; Argonne-Meuse sector, from Sept. 20 to Nov. 11, 
1919. The citations follow. 

"As Operations Officer, Pursuit Wing, First Army, 
this officer, by his untiring efforts, combined with his 
remarkably tactical conception, rendered exceptionally 
meritorious service. By his splendid enthusiasm and 
energy, he inspired his subordinates and gave to the 
units of the First Army a splendid esprit de corps." 

"Officier d'un devouement et d'une conscience militaire 
admirables. Successivement au 1st Pursuit Group, 
puis a I'Aeronautique de la premiere Armee americaine, 
a rendu les plus signales services, a largement con- 
tribue au magnifique rendement de I'Aviation ameri- 
caine dans les batailles de la Marne et de I'Aisne." 

"For exceptionally meritorious and conspicuous 
services with Pursuit Wing, 1st Army, France, A.E.F." 



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GEORGE MEAD RUSHMORE, 1909. 

Enlisted in the Regular army Aug. 9, 1917, as a 
Private, and was assigned to the 38th Infantry. Made 
Corporal in Sept., and Sergeant about the end of Oct. 
In Dec, assigned to the 7 M.G. Battalion, 3rd Division. 
Left for France in Feb., 1918, and was later assigned 
to D Company, 9th M.G. Battalion. First engaged in 
action in the early part of June, and was wounded July 
16 in the second battle of the Marne. Discharged 
March 25, 1919, with the rank of Sergeant. 



STEPHEN SANFORD, 1918. 

Enlisted in the Yale Naval Training Service in 
Aug., 1918, and was discharged in Jan., 1919. [Re- 
port by John Sanford.] 



^RALPH SANGER, 1900. 

Ralph Sanger was born in Cambridge on the thirty- 
first of May, 1882. He was the son of Ellen Horswell 
and the late William T. Sanger. His grandfather was 
Judge George P. Sanger of the Supreme Court of 
Massachusetts, and his great-grandfather, after whom 
he was named, the Rev. Ralph Sanger, Unitarian 
clergyman, of Salem, Massachusetts. Sanger entered 
St. Marks in 1897 in the Fourth Form, and graduated 
in 1900. He graduated from Harvard four years later, 



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just 100 years after his great-grandfather Zedekiah 
Sanger, whose portrait hangs in Memorial Hall. He 
engaged in several business enterprises after gradu- 
ating from college, and was connected with the Morris 
Plan Banking Company just before entering military 
service. 

In August, 1917, he volunteered at Plattsburg; 
graduated in November as Captain of Infantry; and 
in December was transferred to the Air Service, United 
States Army. He then went to the Aviation Fields at 
Austin and San Diego, Texas, and then to Mineola, 
where he got his "wings" as Captain in the Air Service, 
under Major Hitchcock. He went to France in Aug., 
1918, and was there promoted to Third in Command 
of the Flying Field at Orly. He was accidentally 
killed while on flying duty on the twenty-ninth of Aug- 
ust, 1918. He is survived by his wife, who was Miss Vir- 
ginia Sturges Osborn. They were married on the six- 
teenth of November, 1904. Their only son, Fairfield 
Osborn Sanger, died in June, 1917, at the age of ten. 

Ralph Sanger's strong personality at school can be 
analyzed into quiet industry, hearty and sincere friend- 
liness, and a poise very unusual in his age. His tol- 
eration and self-reliance, free from egotism, made him 
one of the pillars of the school in his day, and brought 
him a respect and esteem which he never failed to jus- 
tify. He was invariably and essentially a gentleman, 
and could have been nothing else under any circum- 
stances of life. He had to a great degree the rare faculty 
of keeping his own counsel, and accepting the tasks of 
life as he did the rewards, with a calm, confident bear- 
ing, and without question or comment. The friendliness 
which he so freely extended to others therefore em- 




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braced a dignity and grace which at once won their 
confidence. His sense of humor was perhaps his basic 
mental quality, and is the key to his cheerful, even dis- 
position and breadth of character. 

His mature judgment and intelligent sympathies 
were invaluable in France, and were at once discovered 
and utilized. When made third in command at Orly, he 
was warned by a friend that he would meet with great 
difficulties ; the Colonel in command was a very strict 
disciplinarian, and the pilots had been found to be 
somewhat at loose ends. Sanger saw them; saw as he 
expressed it, that they were "a fine lot of young col- 
lege graduates" ; instantly analyzed the difficulty as 
all work and no play, and set about constructing some 
sort of amusement centre for them, and establishing 
reasonable control over their Paris leave. There had 
been nothing for them to do when not flying, and the 
reaction in the city had been unwholesome. Purely of 
his own will, and further to command the respect of 
his men, he learned to fly every kind of machine him- 
self, for he could not stand by in security while his 
subordinates took the personal risks. The inevitable 
result was not only better discipline and work, but 
the warmest affection and deepest respect and obedience 
from those under him. The testimony to this affection 
in letters received at his death is touching; and when 
the Colonel, who was putting up a building at Orly, 
allowed Mrs. Sanger to furnish it as a club, they at 
once asked that it should be named Sanger Hall. 

Sanger was naturally endowed for responsibility 
and command. His own splendid balance never deserted 
him, and his judgment was invariably true and wise; 
but neither of these could have availed without the 



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most conspicuous and pervasive of all: his boundless 
belief in his fellow-men, and his unfailing readiness to 
serve them. 



WILLIAM GARY SANGER, Jr., 1912. 

From Dec, 1916, to May, 1917, Ambulance Driver 
in France, A.A.F.S. From Aug. 27 to Nov. 27, 1917, 
at the O.T.C. at Fort Niagara, N.Y., and there com- 
missioned 1st Lieutenant on the latter date. From 
Dec. 15, 1917, to May 7, 1918, with the 165th Depot 
Brigade, Camp Travis, Tex. From May 10 to May 
31, with the Military Intelligence Branch, Executive 
Division, General Staff, Washington, D.C. Sailed for 
France June 7. From June 20 to Oct. 20, Assistant to 
the Military Attache, American Embassy, Paris, 
France. From Oct. 23 to May 29, 1919, with the 
131st Infantry, 33rd Division, A.E.F., and from Nov. 
6 to 11 in the line with them at Woel, France. During 
the winter of 1918-19, served with the 131st Infantry 
in Belgium and Luxembourg. Sailed for the U.S.A. 
May 14. Mustered out of service at Camp Upton, L.I., 
N.Y., May 31, 1919. 



RUSSELL ELLIS SARD, 1901. 

Entered the Office of Naval Intelligence about Oct. 
1, 1917, as a Voluntary Aide. In Dec, made Execu- 
tive Aide of the Office of Naval Intelligence, and re- 
ceived a Lieutenant's (U.S.N.R.F.) commission in the 
R.F. Dec. 26. Served until Aug., 1918, and then upon 



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application was transferred to Naval Aviation in Aug., 
and ordered to Hampton Roads for a course of train- 
ing. After a short period of training in the duties of 
Intelligence Officer and Communication Officer, involving 
sea patrol work, was ordered abroad and sailed Sept. 
12, 1918. Attached to Admiral Sims' staff in London. 
Duty involved work in England, France and Belgium. 
Returned to this country early in Dec, and was placed 
on the inactive list in Jan., 1919. Resignation from 
the R.F. was accepted as of Apr. 21, 1919. Promo- 
tion to Lieutenant-Commander went through as of Apr. 
1, 1919, after transfer to the Naval Reserve Flying 
Corps. 



HERMANN CASPAR SCHWAB, 1909. 

Enlisted May 10, 1917, as a Private in the N.Y. 
Regiment of the O.T.C. at Plattsburg, and was com- 
missioned 2nd Lieutenant of Infantry Aug. 15, and 
assigned to Camp Upton. There served on Canton- 
ment Hq. Staff under Major-General J. Franklin Bell 
until Aug., 1918, and was appointed 1st Lieutenant 
in Jan., 1918, and Captain of Infantry in June. In 
Aug., 1918, transferred to the 12th Division at Camp 
Devens, and stationed there with varied duties until 
honorably discharged in Dec, 1918. 



LAWRENCE von POST SCHWAB, 1909. 

Enlisted in the Regular army at Camp Lee, Va., 
Oct. 18, 1917, and was immediately transferred to the 



212 SAINT MARK'S SCHOOL IN THE 

N.A. and assigned as a Private to Company F, 317th 
Infantry, serving as Company Clerk. Made Corporal 
Nov. 17, and Jan. 5, 1918, entered the Division O.T.C. ; 
but because of ill health was transferred from the In- 
fantry to the S.C. Feb. 8, 1918, followed the prescribed 
course of two months' training at Columbus, O., and 
was commissioned 2nd Lieutenant in the S.C. From 
Columbus assigned to Waco, Tex. ; later to Camp 
Greene, N.C. ; Garden City, L.I. ; and finally to Fort 
Wayne, Detroit, Mich. Discharged at Fort Wayne 
Dec. 6, 1918. 



HOWLAND SEABURY, 1919. 

Enlisted in the U.S.A. Oct. 11, 1918. Corporal in 
the Harvard S.A.T.C, U.S.A. Discharged from the 
U.S.A. Dec. 10, 1918. 



PHILIP MASON SEARS, 1918. 

Entered the C.A.C. Oct. 12, 1918, as a Private. 
Discharged Jan. 3, 1919, and at the same time received 
commission as 2nd Lieutenant in the C.A.R.C. 



RICHARD DUDLEY SEARS, Jr., 1915. 

Applied for active duty in the N.R.F., and was 
assigned to the Naval Radio Station, Torpedo Station, 
Newport, R.I., March 28, 1917. Enrolled as an Elec- 



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trician, 2nd class, Radio ; and was promoted to Elec- 
trician, 1st class, Radio, July 13, 1917, while serving 
at sea on board U.S.S. Vesuvius. Promoted to Chief 
Electrician, Radio, Avhile serving on Torpedo Testing 
Barge 2, March 2, 1919. Promoted to Ensign, 
U.S.N.R.F., while serving at the U.S. Naval Experi- 
mental Station, New London, Aug. 8, 1918, and held 
this rank until released from active duty June 24, 
1919. At the time of discharge was serving in the 
Machinery Division, Boston Navy Yard, as Officer in 
Charge of radio compass work of the 1st Naval Dis- 
trict, and Assistant to the Radio Material Officer. 



HENRY SETON, 1913. 

From June to Dec, 1916, served with the A.A.F.S., 
sections 3 and 8. Oct. 26, 1917, made 2nd Lieutenant 
(provisional), 22nd Infantry; and June 11, 1918, 1st 
Lieutenant (temporary), 22nd Infantry. Resignation 
accepted Dec. 27, 1918. 



HERBERT BRAMWELL SHAW, 1907. 

At Plattsburg from May 14 to Aug. 14, 1917. Com- 
missioned 2nd Lieutenant, and assigned to duty at the 
Remount Depot from Aug. 29 to Apr. 13, 1918. Pro- 
moted to 1st Lieutenant Feb. 9. Apr. 13, assigned to 
Field Remount Squadron 308. Adjutant of Pro vision- 
ary Battalion Remount Squadrons 305, 306, 307, 308. 
Sailed June 29. Remained on duty with Remount 
Squadron 308, Seine et Marne. Transferred and per- 



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manently assigned to Hq., Remount Division, Tours, 
Sept. 9, and promoted to Captain Oct. 2, 1918. De- 
mobilized in France May 9, 1919. 



QUINCY ADAMS SHAW, 2nd, 1904. 
[Does not answer. Captain, Remounts.] 

JOHN BEDFORD SHOBER, 1911. 

Appointed 1st Lieutenant, A.S.A., Supply Division, 
Traffic and Storage Branch, Division of Military Aero- 
nautics, on duty at Washington, D.C., in June, 1917; 
at Newport News, Va., in Sept. ; at Arcadia, Fla., in 
Nov. ; at Dayton, O., in May, 1918; and at Baltimore, 
Md., in June. Appointed Aviation Officer, Port of Em- 
barkation, Baltimore, Md., in July, 1918, Commanding 
Officer, 814th Depot Aero Squadron (detachment). 
Captain, A.S., in March, 1919. 

PEMBERTON HUTCHINSON SHOBER, 1913. 

Entered Battery C, 1st Pa. F.A., N.G., U.S., in 
June, 1916, with the rank of Private, and left May 9, 
1917, recommended for the R.O.T.C. During this 
period, performed five months' border service. From 
May 11, to Aug. 15, 1917, served in the 3rd Battery, 
1st R.O.T.C, Fort Niagara, N.Y., as a Cadet, and was 
commissioned 2nd Lieutenant, F.A. From Aug. 15, 
served with the 312th F.A., 79th Division, as 2nd Lieu- 
tenant; from Dec. 31, 1917, to May 6, 1919, as 1st 



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Lieutenant; and from May 6 to Aug. 31, 1919, 1st 
Lieutenant with the 12th F.A., 2nd Division. Saw 
overseas service from July 14, 1918, to Aug. 6, 1919. 
Promoted to Cadet in May, 1917 ; to 2nd Lieutenant in 
Aug., 1917 ; and to 1st Lieutenant in Dec, 1917. Hon- 
orably discharged Aug. 31, 1919, at Fort D. A. 
Russel, Wyo. 



LIVINGSTON LYMAN SHORT, Ex-1910. 

Entered the Plattsburg Training Camp in May, 
1917, and was commissioned 2nd Lieutenant, Q.M.C., 
in Aug. In Oct., assigned to the Supply Company, 
Q.M.C. 306. Sailed for France in Jan., 1918, and 
commanded the Supply Company, Q.M.C. 306, from 
Jan., 1918, until May, 1919. Promoted to 1st Lieu- 
tenant in Oct., 1918, and discharged in May, 1919. 



FREDERICK WILLIAM SIMONDS, Ex-1906. 

In Feb., 1916, served as a Volunteer Ambulance 
Driver in France, in the Section Sanitaire Americaine 
No. 5 (Formation Harjes). In Aug., 1917, was ap- 
pointed Section Leader, S.S.U. 59, Harjes-Norton ser- 
vice. In Nov., 1917, commissioned 1st Lieutenant, 
U.S.A. Ambulance Service with the French Army, and 
assigned to the command of S.S.U. 649. In Apr.-May, 
1918, completed and passed the course of the "Centre 
d'Instruction Automobile de Meaux" (French Army 
School for officers of the automobile service). In June, 
1918, assigned to the command of S.S.U. 501. In 



216 SAINT MARK'S SCHOOL IN THE 

Nov. assigned to duty at Paris. From Feb., 1916, 
until the armistice, saw service with the above units 
in different sectors of the front from Belfort to the 
North Sea. In March, 1919, assigned to duty as Dip- 
lomatic Courier for the Peace Commission, and as such 
visited Belgium, Holland, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, 
Germany, Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Austria-Hun- 
gary, Switzerland, Italy, Serbia, Roumania, Bulgaria, 
and Turkey. Returned to the U.S. in Sept., 1919, and 
was honorably discharged in Oct., 1919. Received the 
following citations : 

Croix de Guerre. ^'Engage volontaire americain; 
n'a cesse depuis 10 mois de deployer la plus grande 
activite dans son service qu'il accomplit avec un in- 
lassable devouement, tou jours pret a partir dans les 
missions les plus perilleuses, sait conserver un calme 
complet dans les circonstances les plus difficiles, s'est 
particulierement distingue dans les attaques de mars, 
decembre, 1916, Janvier, 1917, dans un secteur tres 
expose." 

Medaille d'Honneur. "A prete son devoue con- 
cours au Service de Sante fran9ais et s'est particuliere- 
ment distingue lors de I'explosion de la Courneuve. M. 
le Lieutenant Simonds est autorise a porter cette 
Medaille suspendue a la boutonniere par un ruban tri- 
colore egalement divise. Ce diplome lui a ete delivre afin 
de perpetuer dans sa famille et au milieu de ses con- 
citoyens le souvenir de son honorable et courageuse 
conduite." 

JOHN SIMPKINS, 1909. 

Enlisted in the F.A., Mass. Volunteer Militia, in 
May, 1914. Private, Corporal, Battalion Sergeant- 



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Major; Regimental Sergeant-Ma j or on Mexican border 
service from July 3 to Oct. 19, 1916. 1st Lieutenant, 
Hq. Company, May 9, 1917. Captain, Hq. Company, 
2nd Mass. F.A., May 25. This was drafted into Fed- 
eral service Aug. 5 as the 102nd F.A., 51st Brigade, 
26th Division. Sailed for foreign service with the 
A.E.F., Sept. 23. Continuous service as Regimental 
Intelligence Officer, Munitions Officer, Operations Offi- 
cer, and Commander of Hq. Company, 102nd F.A., dur- 
ing eighteen months' active duty, being 220 days en- 
gaged with the enemy. Served in the following sectors : 
Feb. 3, 1918, to March 20, Chemin des Dames; Apr. 3 
to June 26, Toul sector; July 5 to Aug. 4, Chateau- 
Thierry (Pas Fini sector) ; Sept. 13 to Oct. 12, Troyon 
(St. Mihiel) ; Oct. 16 to Nov. 11, 1918, Neptune (Ver- 
dun). Took part in the following engagements and 
battles: Seicheprey, Apr. 20-21, 1918; Xivray-Mar- 
voisin, June 16-17 ; Aisne-Marne offensive, July 18- 
Aug. 4; St. Mihiel offensive, Sept. 13-15; Meuse- 
Argonne offensive, Oct. 16-Nov. 11, 1918. Sailed for 
the U.S. March 31, 1919; arrived Apr. 14. Honor- 
ably discharged as Captain, F.A., U.S.A., Apr. 29, 
1919. 

►I<NATHANIEL STONE SIMPKINS, Jr., 1905. 

Nathaniel Stone Simpkins, Jr., the eldest son of 
Nathaniel Stone Simpkins and Mabel Kingsley Jenks 
Simpkins, was born in New York on the fourteenth of 
December, 1885. He lived abroad for several years, 
entered St. Mark's as a member of the Third Form in 
1901, and Harvard College in the class of 1909. Upon 
leaving college he went into the business of insurance 



218 SAINT MARK'S SCHOOL IN THE 

in Boston. He was married in 1911 to Miss Olivia 
Thorndike, of Boston, who survives him with their two 
sons, Nathaniel Stone Simpkins 3rd, born in 1912, and 
Oliver Thorndike Simpkins, born in 1917. Simpkins' 
father, two uncles, and two brothers were graduates of 
St. Mark's, and his youngest brother is now a member 
of the School. 

In February, 1916, he enlisted as a Private in Bat- 
tery F, First Regiment of Field Artillery, and went 
to Texas in June with the National Guard as Battalion 
Quartermaster. He was stationed at El Paso, and 
served five months on the border. While there he was 
elected Second Lieutenant of Battery D, and in May, 
1917, First Lieutenant. On May first he was detailed 
as Aide-de-Camp to General Clarence R. Edwards, 
then commanding the Northeastern Department, and in 
September he accompanied Major-General Edwards, 
Commander of the Twenty-Sixth Division, to France. 
In January, 1918, he was promoted to the rank of Cap- 
tain as the result of examinations. He served at the 
front from February, 1918, until his death from pneu- 
monia on the twenty-second of October, 1918, at Sou- 
illy. He took part in the battles of Seicheprey, Cha- 
teau-Thierry, and St. Mihiel. 

As known to his comrades at St. Mark's, Simpkins 
was quiet and modest. This modesty, combined with 
an intensely sympathetic disposition, at first masked 
his deep moral force from his fellows ; but as responsi- 
bilities multiplied, and his simple acceptance of every 
duty that came to him was evident, his character be- 
gan to be properly appreciated, as his courteous per- 
sonality had alwa3^s been. Under the almost feminine 
sympathy, which never needed appeal, a moral bravery 




NATHANIEL STONE SIMPKINS, Jr. 



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far beyond that of most men had quietly developed, 
until, when he entered the Army, no truer example of 
the gentleman ever represented St. Mark's. Testimony 
of his devotion to his comrades in the war and of his 
military services adds nothing to his School's estimate 
of him, for kindness, gentleness and bravery were al- 
ways the motives of his character. Nothing could bet- 
ter show the quality of his faith than the following, 
from an address he delivered to his Company at a reli- 
gious service: "Christ will always listen to you, no 
matter how humble your petition. If you have asked 
a reasonable favor of Him ; and if you have done every- 
thing in your earthly power to carry out what you 
want, provided it is good for you, it has always been 
my belief that it will be granted to you. I say this, for 
it has been the case in my own personal life. You have 
had ten years' teaching of Christ the Pacifist. It is 
now that you must, face to face with death, see Christ 
as he truly is : Christ the Soldier ; Christ the Fighter ; 
and Christ the greatest leader of men that ever walked 
this earth." The following extracts from resolutions 
adopted at a meeting of the Rector, Wardens and Ves- 
trymen of St. John's Church, Beverly Farms, Mass., 
of which he was a Vestryman at the time of his death, 
offer striking proof of promise fulfilled : 

"Next to his family the two things that he held most 
dear were the Army and the Church. The worship at 
St. John's appealed to him, and his love for her was 
great. She owes him much for work done, for genial 
comradeship, and for the good feeling in Church and 
Vestry which came from his presence among us. But 
it was in the Army that Captain Simpkins came into 
his own. He was in the thick of the fight at Chateau- 



220 SAINT MARK'S SCHOOL IN THE 

Thierry and at St. Mihiel, and to those who knew him 
his rapid promotion was no surprise, for they knew 
what manner of man he was, and what measure of sol- 
dier he had become. He loved his fellow-men as it is 
given to few men to do, and his influence for good upon 
those with whom he came in close contact is not to be 
measured in words. He was a Christian, a gentleman, 
and a good soldier." 



WILLARD SEARS SIMPKINS, 1913. 

Entered the service as 2nd Lieutenant, 102nd F.A., 
July 25, 1917. Made 2nd Lieutenant in the Regular 
army, and detailed as Aide-de-Camp to Brigadier- 
General G. H. Shelton, commanding the 51st Infantry 
Brigade, 26th Division, July 18, 1918. As such, com- 
pleted active service in France Dec. 12, 1918. Made 
1st Lieutenant in the Regular army Feb. 4, 1919. In- 
valided home, and later detailed as Aide-de-Camp to 
Major-General C. R. Edwards, March 1, 1919. Re- 
signed from the service Aug. 8, 1919. Took part in 
the following battles : Chateau-Thierry, or second 
Marne offensive, July 18, 1918; St. Mihiel drive, Sept. 
12; Meuse-Argonne offensive, Oct. 10, 1918. 



WILLIAM SLOAN SIMPSON, 1895. 

Entered the 133rd F.A., 36th Division, as a Major, 
Aug. 4, 1917. Trained at Camp Bowie; graduated 
from the Fort Sill School of Fire; and was promoted 



WAR AGAINST GERMANY 221 

to Lieutenant-Colonel in the 133rd F.A., July 24, 
1918. Sailed for France July 31, and was assigned as 
Chief of Staff, 61st F.A. Brigade, about Sept. 1, 1918. 
Returned to the U.S. Apr. 2, 1919 ; on duty with the 
General Staff in Washington until Aug. 15; and was 
mustered out of the service Aug. 24, 1919. 



CHARLES MORRIS SMITH, 3rd., 1915. 

Enlisted in May, 1917, in Base Hospital No. 8 
(Post Graduate Hospital, N.Y.) as a Private. Sailed 
July 30 on S.S. Saratoga, which was sunk off Staten 
Island. Sailed Aug. 7 on S.S. Finland, and arrived at 
St. Nazaire Aug. 20. With Base Hospital No. 8 at 
Savenay (Loire Inferieure) until July 31, 1918. Trans- 
ferred to the Gasoline and Oil Department, Q.M.C. 
service, between Chateau-Thierry and Soissons. Per- 
formed service in Paris from Aug. 25 to Jan. 22, 1919, 
as French-American Liaison of Gasoline and Oil. 
Passed examination for 2nd Lieutenant, Q.M.C, Nov. 
8, 1919, but the commission was withheld because of 
the armistice. Discharged Feb. 20, 1919. 



EUGENE DUTILH SMITH, 1908. 

Commissioned 2nd Lieutenant Dec. 15, 1917, Ord- 
nance R.C., U.S.A. ; promoted to 1st Lieutenant, Ord- 
nance, U.S.A., Sept. 11, 1918; discharged Dec. 24, 
1918. 



222 SAINT MARK'S SCHOOL IN THE 



GEORGE WATSON HALL SMITH, 1914. 

Enrolled in the U.S.N.R.F. at Newport, R.I., May 
15, 1917, Made Quartermaster of the 3rd class, U.S.S. 
Alcada, stationed at Newport and New London, patrol 
oflF Block Island and Montauk. Made Quartermaster 
of the 2nd class. New London, in July, 1917, and 
Storekeeper of the 2nd class. New London, in Oct. On 
duty receiving a submarine net destined for the Eng- 
lish Channel. This net was forty-one miles long. 
Storekeeper of the 1st class. New London, in March, 
1918. Commissioned Ensign, Pay Corps, Newport, 
May 25, and at Annapolis June 10. Reported Aug. 1 
at Manitowoc, Wis., as Supply Officer, U.S.S. Blue 
Ridge, troop transport for the English Channel. Re- 
leased from active service Jan. 29, 1919, at the Boston 
Navy Yard. 



GORDON ARTHUR SMITH, 1904. 

Started training on seaplanes as a civilian in the 
winter of 1916-17. Flew seaplanes and instructed, 
still as a civilian, during the spring and summer of 
1917. Entered the U.S. Naval Reserve Flying Corps 
with the rank of Ensign in Oct., 1917, and sailed for 
France Oct. 14. Promoted to Lieutenant (j.g.) in the 
spring of 1918, and to Lieutenant in the fall. 



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JOHN COTTON SMITH, 1906. 

Commissioned 2nd Lieutenant of Infantry, R.C, 
Fort Myer, Va., Nov. 27, 1917, and reported for duty 
at Leon Springs Training Camp, Camp Stanley, Tex., 
Dec. 19. Relieved from duty at Camp Stanley, May 
18, 1918, and reported at Camp Lee, Petersburg, Va., 
June 2. Sailed from Newport News, Va., Aug. 5, with 
the 31st Provisional Company, July Automatic In- 
fantry Replacement draft ; landed at Brest, France, 
Aug. 18; and was assigned to the 331st Infantry Aug. 
27. Sailed from Brest with the 331st Infantry Jan. 
17, 1919; landed at New York Jan. 26; and was dis- 
charged Feb. 6 by special order No. 37, Hq. Camp 
Upton, New York, Feb. 6, 1919. 



WILLIAM ALDEN SMITH, Jr., 1911. 

Appointeb Captain July 10, 1917, and assigned to 
duty in the office of Chief Signal Officer during the in- 
itial organization of the A.S., handling receipt of ap- 
plications for commissions and assignments to schools 
of military aeronautics. Upon application for foreign 
or at least field service, assigned to Kelly Field, San 
Antonio, Tex., the largest A.S. mobilization camp in 
the L^.S. ; placed in charged of all organization of 
squadrons and detachments in the 1st Training Brigade 
for overseas and other stations, Dec. 7, 1917. De- 
tailed as Adjutant, Flying Department, Kelly Field 
No. 2, Feb. 12, 1918. Reported for special duty at 
the A.S. Flying School, Rockwell Field, San Diego, 



224 SAINT MARK'S SCHOOL IN THE 

Cal., March 10. Assigned to March Field, Riverside, 
Cal., Apr. 13. Acting Commanding at this post during 
its organization until June 13, 1918. Detailed as Adju- 
tant, March Field, and later as Executive Officer. 
Qualified as pilot, and rated as Reserve Military Avi- 
ator. Recommended three times for promotion. Honor- 
ably discharged Jan. 10, 1919, and re-commissioned 
Major in the A.S., S.R.C. (flying status), Feb. 3, 1919. 



HENRY BIGELOW WILLIAMS SNELLING, 
1917. 

Entered the F.A., C.O.T.S., at Camp Taylor, Ky., 
Oct. 23, 1918, and left Nov. 30, 1918. Rank on en- 
listing, Private. 



GEORGE PALEN SNOW, 1900. 

Admitted to the F.A., C.O.T.S., at Camp Zachary 
Taylor, Louisville, Ky., Aug. 30, 1918, and enlisted in 
the U.S. Army the following day. Served with the 
War Trade Board, New York City, from Sept., 1917, 
to Sept., 1918, as Department Chief. Attended the 
Artillery School at Camp Zachary Taylor until Dec. 
28, 1918. Commissioned Captain Dec. 28, and dis- 
charged on the same day. 



HERBERT SNYDER, Master. 

Enlisted Jan. 5, 1918, in the O.T.S., Camp Upton, 
and was made Sergeant, Company A, 308th Infantry, 



WAR AGAINST GERMANY 225 

Apr. 2. Landed in France Apr. 24, and served in the 
Arras sector from May 26 to 31, and the Vosges sec- 
tor from June 16 to July 14. Commissioned 2nd Lieu- 
tenant, Infantry, July 14. Assigned to the 9th In- 
fantry July 26. In the Marbache sector from Aug. 4 
to Aug. 16; the St. Mihiel offensive from Sept. 12 to 
15; and the Champagne offensive (Blanc Mont) from 
Oct. 2 to 10. Made 1st Lieutenant Oct. 28. In the 
Meuse-Argonne offensive from Nov. 1 to 11. Served 
with the Regiment in Germany. Landed in the U.S. 
June 1, 1919, and was discharged June 6, 1919. Re- 
ceived the Croix de Guerre with Palm, and a citation 
by General Hq. of the A.E.F. ; both "for gallantry" in 
Champagne. 



WILLIAM DAVIES SOHIER, Jr., 1907. 

Entered the service Aug. 27, 1917, as Officer Can- 
didate at Plattsburg Barracks, N.Y. Commissioned 
as Captain of Infantry Nov. 27. Attached to the 314th 
Infantry, Camp Meade, Md., Nov. 27. Assigned to 
duty with casuals at Camp Merritt, N.J., Apr. 6, 1918. 
Discharged Feb. 10, 1919. 



EDWARD GRANT SPARROW, 1918. 

Accepted for enlistment in the U.S. Marine Corps 
at New York, July 8, 1918; sworn in at Paris Island 
July 14, and underwent training there.- Transferred 
to Quantico, Va., Aug. 31, and attached to Company A, 
11th Regiment. Sailed for France from Philadelphia 



226 SAINT MARK'S SCHOOL IN THE 

Sept. 30, and arrived at Brest Oct. 13. Went to Mar- 
seilles Oct. 23, and did guard duty there. Promoted to 
Private of the 1st class Apr. 1, 1919. Editor of the 
Company newspaper. Left Marseilles for Brest June 
8, to go on an expedition to Silesia ; but the expedition 
did not materialize. Sailed from Brest July 29 for the 
U.S. on U.S.S. Orizaba, and landed at Hampton Roads, 
Va., Aug. 6. Discharged Aug. 11, 1919. 



ELBRIDGE GERRY SPAULDING, 1902. 

Went abroad with the A.R.C. in June, 1918. As- 
signed to the 35th Division, and remained with it 
until Sept. 12, when transferred to the 78th Division. 
Remained with the latter until the armistice, and re- 
turned in Dec, 1918. 



STEPHEN VAN RENSSELAER SPAULDING, 

1903. 

Enlisted in the 74th Regiment, N.Y. State Guard. 
Commissioned a Lieutenant, and served until the spring 
of 1919. 



THOMAS GAGER SPENCER, 1902. 

Enlisted at Washington Barracks, D.C., June 4, 
1918, and served as a Private in the 31st Service Com- 
pany, S.C, College Park, Md., from June to Aug., and 
in the 13th Service Company, S.C, Camp Alfred Vail, 



WAR AGAINST GERMANY 227 

N.J., from Aug. to Nov. Commissioned 2nd Lieuten- 
ant, S.C., Nov. 5, 1918, and honorably discharged at 
Camp Alfred Vail, Dec. 7, 1918. 



GEORGE GILL STEARNS, 1905. 

[Address unknown.] From a previous report, dated 
March 4, 1919: "Branch of Service, Infantry. Rank, 
Private. Post, 1st Canadian Reserve Battalion. Still 
in service in England." The Harvard War Records 
Office adds, on the authority of Mrs. Richard S. 
Stearns, that on May 17, 1919, Stearns was at Camp 
Seaford, Sussex, England, 



CHARLES RICHARD STEEDMAN, 1915. 

Intensive training in the Harvard R.O.T.C. from 
May 8 to Aug. 15, 1917. Enlisted in the Aviation 
Section, U.S.S.C., Sept. 18, as a Private of the 1st 
class. Commissioned 2nd Lieutenant, Reserve Military 
Aviator, at San Antonio, June 5, 1918. Discharged 
at Garden City, N.Y., Dec. 11, 1918. 



JOHN LONGWORTH STETTINIUS, 1900. 

Commissioned Major in the Judge Advocate Gen- 
eral's Section of the O.R.C., June 22, 1918, and held 
offices in organizations as follows: July 11 to Sept. 18, 
1918, Assistant Camp Judge Advocate, Camp Fun- 
ston, Kan.; Sept. 18 to Jan. 23, 1919, Assistant Div- 



228 SAINT MARK'S SCHOOL IN THE 

ision Judge Advocate, 10th Division, Camp Funston; 
Jan. 23 to Feb. 18, Division Judge Advocate, 10th 
Division, Camp Funston; Feb. 18 to Oct. 14, Camp 
Judge Advocate, Camp Funston; Oct. 14, to date [Oct. 
29, 1919] Division Judge Advocate, 7th Division, Camp 
Funston. Although an applicant for immediate dis- 
charge from the service and a commission in the O.R.C., 
was placed on the list of officers to be retained in the 
service after Nov. 1, 1919. 



YALE STEVENS, 1910. 

Went to the Plattsburg O.T.C. in May, 1917, as 
"recommended but not yet commissioned" in the O.R.C. 
In July, commissioned 2nd Lieutenant of Infantry, 
R.C. In Aug. recommissioned Captain of Infantry, 
R.C., and ordered to the 76th Division at Camp Devens. 
There assigned to the 303rd M.G. Battalion. In 
March, 1918, sent to take the M.G. course at the In- 
fantry School of Arms, Fort Sill, Okla. Upon return 
to Camp Devens, transferred to Camp Hancock, Ga., 
to the M.G. Training Centre, and there assigned to the 
M.G. School. Appointed Adjutant in June, 1918, and 
remained as such until discharged in Dec, 1918. 



PHILIP STEVENSON, 1910. 

With the 1st Penn. Cavalry in Aug., 1917, and 2nd 
Lieutenant in the Remount Service in July, 1918. At- 
tached to G-4, General Staff, at Tours, France, from 
July to Dec, 1918. Discharged Jan. 11, 1919. 



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CAMPBELL WHITE STEWARD, 1905. 

Served with the Y.M.C.A. from Dec, 1917, to Feb., 
1919. On duty during the first month at the A.S. 
camp at Issoudun, France, and the rest of the time 
managing the OfBcers' Hotel at Tours. 



CARL SENFF STILLMAN, 1892. 

Volunteer member of the Norton-Harjes Ambu- 
lance Service, Section 7, from July to Dec, 1917. 
With the Rolling Canteen on the Italian Front, Red 
Cross, from May to Dec, 1918, with the rank of Lieu- 
tenant, Made a Lieutenant of the Italian Army, com- 
plimentary, for services rendered. Cited for bravery, 
with the Italian War Cross. The citation follows. 

"For bravery displayed in the performance of his 
duties. Lieutenant Stillman voluntarily entered the 
front lines to effect his usual distribution of comforts 
to the soldiers and accomplished his task in an admir- 
able manner even during the violent fire of an artillery 
duel." [Report by Mrs. C. S. Stillman.] 



CARL SENFF STILLMAN, Jr., 1917. 

Member of the British R.A.F., with rank of Flight 
Cadet, from Apr. to Dec, 1918, training in Canada 
when the armistice was signed. [Report by Mrs. C. 
S. Stillman.] 



230 SAINT MARK'S SCHOOL IN THE 



ELIJAH HUBBARD STILLMAN, 1917. 

Member of the British R.A.F. from Apr. to Dec, 
1918, training in Canada when the armistice was 
signed. [Report by Mrs. C. S. Stillman.] 



LAWRENCE BOWRING STODDART, Jr., 
1917. 

[Does not answer. Private, Royal Artillery.] 



EDWARD PORTER STREET, 1916. 

Enrolled in the U.S.N.R.F. as a Quartermaster 
of the 3rd class, March 24, 1917. Went into active 
service Apr. 14, and was on the Coast Patrol at New- 
port, R.I., during the summer of 1917. Commissioned 
Ensign, U.S.N.R.F., Sept. 18. Attended the 2nd 
R.O.T.S. at the Naval Academy from Oct. 11 to Jan. 
31, 1918, and was then commissioned Ensign for tem- 
porary service in the U.S. Navy, and ordered to the 
destroyer Gregory. U.S.S. Gregory arrived overseas 
July 5, and was attached to the patrol squadrons 
based on Gibraltar, doing escort duty in the Medi- 
terranean. Commissioned temporary Lieutenant 
(j.g.) Aug. 15, After the signing of the armistice the 
Gregory was ordered to Venice, and spent six months 
in the Adriatic, principally around Fiume and the Dal- 
matian coast. During May, 1919, went to Smyrna, 
Constantinople and Batum, Russia. Returned to the 



WAR AGAINST GERMANY 231 

U.S. in June, reaching New York June 13. Resigna- 
tion from the service accepted July 15, 1919. 



ALEXANDER STRONG, 1908. 

Enlisted Aug. 21, 1917, in the U.S.N.R., Class 4 
for service in Class 5, as a 2nd class Seaman. Called 
to active duty and entered the Aviation Ground School 
at the Mass. Institute of Technology, Cambridge, 
Sept. 17. Graduated from the Ground School, and was 
transferred to the training camp at Hampton Roads, 
U.S. Naval Air Station, Nov. 10. Transferred Jan. 
9, 1918, for further flight training, to the U.S. Naval 
Aeronautic Station, Pensacola, Fla. Qualified as Naval 
Aviator Feb. 5. Commissioned Ensign, U.S.N.R.F., 
Class 5, Feb. 25, to rank from Feb. 14, and transferred 
to the U.S. Naval Air Station, Hampton Roads, Va., 
March 5. Performed various duties, from Instructor 
to Assistant Squadron Commander. Promoted to 
Lieutenant (j.g.) June 15, to rank from May 1, 1918. 
Performed duties of Flight Officer and Patrol Squad- 
ron Commander. Promoted to Lieutenant Dec. 3, to 
rank from Oct. 1, 1918. Performed duties of Aide for 
operations, in which capacity had charge of and was re- 
sponsible to the Commanding Officer for all flying 
activities of the station. Placed on inactive duty 
status Jan. 15, 1919. Still provisional Lieutenant, 
U.S.N.R.F., Class 5, on inactive duty. Had about 225 
hours of flying in all types of naval seaplanes, of which 
about 100 hours consisted of patrol work off shore. 



232 SAINT MARK'S SCHOOL IN THE 



ROGER STURGIS, 1914. 

Enlisted at Fort McDowell, Cal., in the Regular 
army, Oct. 5, 1917. Served two weeks in a recruiting 
company, and was then assigned to the 61st U.S. In- 
fantry. Made a Corporal in Nov., and in March, 1918, 
was appointed Duty Sergeant in Company I, 61st 
U.S. Infantry, at Camp Green, N.C. Apr. 16, sailed 
from Hoboken, N.J., in the Fifth Division (Regulars), 
and arrived at Brest Apr. 30. The Division was sent 
to Bar-sur-Aube for training, and towards the end of 
May to Gerardmer. Then it joined the French in the 
quiet Anould sector. Was here put in charge of the 
Battalion liaison men, or "runners." Here a German 
raid was repulsed, in which some casualties were suf- 
fered and prisoners taken. Then sent to Arches for 
more training, and then to the front on the St. Die 
sector, July 4. Remained until the end of Aug., and 
then went to the St. Mihiel salient. In the front line 
from Sept. 11 to 28; then relieved and sent to Toul. 
Oct. 14, sent into the Argonne-Meuse offensive. Was 
mentioned, and awarded a Divisional Citation, for lead- 
ing fourteen men on an advance through woods cut off 
by our own artillery fire. With many others, was 
sent to La Valbonne, France, to school to be commis- 
sioned as 2nd Lieutenant, and was there when the 
armistice was signed. Continued there until the mid- 
dle of Jan., when the course ended. Commis- 
sioned and assigned to Hq. Troop, 5th Division, and 
put in charge of the Hq. Motor Transportation. 
Served for the next eight months in the Army of Occu- 
pation, with Division Hq. in Esch. Returned home 



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July 21, 1919. Recommended and retained for a com- 
mission in the Regular service, and in command of Hq. 
Troop since Aug. [Dec. 8, 1919.] 



JOHN RICHARD SUYDAM, Jr., 1905. 

Entered service in the N.Y. Coast Artillery July 
15, 1917, with the rank of 1st Lieutenant. On duty 
from Aug. to Jan., 1918, at Fort Totten, N.Y. ; and 
from Jan. to June at the American University, Wash- 
ington, D.C., engaged in developing a process for mak- 
ing mustard gas. Held the rank of 1st Lieutenant in 
the Ordnance R.C., and later in the Chemical Service 
Section. On duty from June, 1918, to Dec. at the 
Edgewood Arsenal, Edgewood, Md., engaged in the 
manufacture of mustard gas. While there, was trans- 
ferred as 1st Lieutenant to the Chemical Warfare Ser- 
vice. Discharged Dec. 18, 1918. 



EDWARD TAYLOR HUNT TALMAGE, Jr., 
1913. 

Aug. 27, 1917, joined the 1st Battery, 2nd R.O.T.C, 
at Fort Myer, Va. ; Nov. 27, commissioned 2nd Lieu- 
tenant, F.A., R.C. ; Dec. 15 to Apr. 10, 1918, Assistant 
Instructor at the F.A. Training Camp, Camp Stanley, 
Tex. From May 1 to July 24, Hq., Camp Jackson, F.A. 
Replacement Depot, S.C. July 25, 4th Corps Artillery 
Park, Camp Wadsworth, S.C. Aug. 14, promoted to 
1st Lieutenant of F.A. From Oct. 22 to Nov. 11, 
1918, engaged in the Meuse-Argonne battle, with the 



234 SAINT MARK'S SCHOOL IN THE 

Park Battery of the 4th Corps Artillery Park. From 
Nov. 11 to Apr. 20, 1919, with the Army of Occupa- 
tion, Germany. May 27, 1919, honorably discharged 
from the service at Camp Meade, Md. 



HAROLD TAPPIN, 1896. 

Commissioned 1st Lieutenant, Engineer Corps, at 
Plattsburg Barracks, Aug. 15, 1917; promoted to 
Captain May 17, 1918. Served as Chief of Dissemi- 
nation Section G-2, General Hq., A.E.F., from Nov. 
22, 1917, to Dec. 2, 1918. Thence to the Peace Con- 
ference until March 17, 1919; was sent as Military 
Observer through Poland and adjacent countries; and 
then assigned to the American Relief Administration 
and sent to Armenia. Discharged Sept. 25 in Tiflis, 
Russia. Received the British Military Cross, and an 
American citation for "exceptionally^ meritorious and 
conspicuous service." 



FRANCIS TAYLOR, 1919. 

Enlisted in the Yale S.A.T.C. in September, 1918. 
Demobilized the last of Dec, 1918. [Report by Edith 
B. Taylor.] 



^MOSES TAYLOR, Jr., 1916. 

MosES Taylor, Jr., the son of Moses Taylor and 
Edith Bishop Taylor, was born at Babylon, Long 
Island, on the eighth of June, 1897. He entered the 




MOSES TAYLOR, Jr. 



WAR AGAINST GERMANY 235 

Second Form at St. Mark's in 1910, and graduated in 
1916. He was very active in all forms of athletics, and 
played on the baseball and football teams. When mili- 
tary training was started in the autumn of 1914, his 
unusual aptitude and ability gained him the rank of 
Captain in Company A. After taking his examinations 
for Yale, and the day after he left St. Mark's, he en- 
listed in the First Massachusetts Field Artillery, and 
served until late in the autumn on the Mexican border. 
On his return he entered Norwich University, feeling 
convinced that the United States would shortly enter 
the war; and from there was recommended to the Offi- 
cers' Training Camp at Plattsburg in May, 1917. He 
was commissioned a temporary Second Lieutenant in 
the Regular army, and assigned at once to the Ninth 
United States Infantry, sailing for France in the Sec- 
ond Division in September. In October the temporary 
commission was made permanent, and he was pro- 
moted to First Lieutenant. In France he was in con- 
tinuous action from December until the time of his 
death, March twenty-fourth, 1918. The following ac- 
count is from the reports of his fellow-officers. 

In the evening of the twenty-third, Taylor, who was 
regarded as one of the most skilful at the work, gath- 
ered volunteers for a raid in No Man's Land. There 
were twenty in all, and the objective was a mill in 
which the Germans had several machine-guns. Armed 
with pistols and hand-grenades, with Taylor in com- 
mand, they went over the top at two in the morning 
and crept towards the German lines, eight hundred 
yards away. Taylor was in the lead with another lieu- 
tenant, and the others followed twenty yards behind. 
Before coming to the mill they had to cross a small 



236 SAINT MARK'S SCHOOL IN THE 

stream. Leaping over this, the three lieutenants then 
in the lead crawled on their hands and knees into a 
field of old corn-stalks. In crawling over these they 
made some noise, and believing that they would make 
less by walking, they arose, and had walked twenty 
yards when Taylor saw what appeared like a freshly- 
dug hole, which he started forward to investigate. The 
others pointed their pistols at it, and were close upon 
it when a German jumped up and fired at Taylor, who 
fell. At the same moment one of Taylor's companions 
shot the German in the head ; but as this was happen- 
ing a number of others emerged from a trench a short 
distance away, and came across shooting and throw- 
ing hand-grenades. An attempt was made to recover 
Taylor's body, but a barrage had been laid down, and 
it was not until two weeks later that his company took 
the trench, capturing fifty Germans and killing over 
sixty. It afterwards transpired that he did not die at 
once, but was brought into Relaincourt, where he died 
soon after his arrival. He was buried in the local 
cemetery at Vigneulles. The uniform testimony from 
his brother officers is that there was no finer officer in 
the service than he, and none more beloved for bravery 
and devotion to his men. 

Taylor's ability as an officer, to which emphatic tes- 
timony is given by all his comrades as well as by his 
record, is everywhere associated with his constant solic- 
itude for the comfort and amusement of his men, one 
of whom says, "He was like a father to us." Taylor 
recognized but one path of appeal to his fellow-men, 
through the heart ; and in this his every experience from 
his youth up justified him, for everybody loved him. 
His devotion to his men was foreshadowed by his gen- 



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erosity of character, big-heartedness and loyalty at 
school ; and his natural, manly honesty and frankness 
were developed through maturity into the ordered re- 
sourcefulness and soldierly fearlessness of the "best 
man at the work in No Man's Land." Because of this 
honesty and fearlessness, and the love which came to 
him as his natural right, it is bitter indeed for us to 
think of him as we knew him, joyful, bright-eyed, affec- 
tionate, dying in the hospital among his country's 
enemies ; but though he said when he went abroad that 
he did not expect to return, this is less prophetic of a 
hard fate than of the consummated life of that generous 
spirit which was never afraid. 



REGINALD BISHOP TAYLOR, 1918. 

Enlisted June 22, 1918, in Hq. Troop, 76th Di- 
vision, and sailed for France July 2. Promoted to Cor- 
poral Aug. 20, and to Sergeant Aug. 29. Transferred 
to the 301st M.G. Battalion, Prisoner of War Guard 
Company ; attached to the Peace Conference ; and 
finally transferred to the Courier Service. Landed in 
America July 12, 1919. 



THOMAS CHANDLER THACHER, Jr., 1914. 

At the 1st Plattsburg R.O.T.C. from May 12 to 
Aug. 15, 1917, and commissioned 1st Lieutenant of 
Infantry Aug. 15. Served with the 303rd Infantry, 
76th Division, from Sept., 1917, to Nov., 1918, and 
sailed overseas July 8, 1918. Casual, Nov. 8, 1918, to 



238 SAINT MARK'S SCHOOL IN THE 

Jan. 1, 1919. Aide-de-Camp to Brigadier-General 
Poore, 7th Infantry Brigade, 4th Division, from Jan. 
5 to May 1, 1919. Sailed for the U.S.A. May 20, as 
Casual. Landed at Newport News June 1, and was 
discharged at Camp Lee, Va., June 3, 1919. 



JAMES APPLETON THAYER, 1917. 

Inducted into the S.A.T.C. at Amherst College, Am- 
herst, Mass., Oct. 10, 1918. Transferred to the 36th 
Company, C.O.T.S., Camp Lee, Va., Nov. 10; and to 
the 41st Company, C.O.T.S., Camp Lee, Nov. 20. Dis- 
charged at Camp Lee Feb. 15, 1919, as a Private, In- 
fantry Replacement Troops, and commissioned 2nd 
Lieutenant of Infantry, R.C., U.S.A. 



JAMES BHADLEY THAYER, 1917. 

Entered the Harvard S.A.T.C. as a Private, Oct. 
15, 1918, and was discharged Dec. 6, 1918. 



SIGOURNEY THAYER, 1914. 

Entered the service in June, 1916, at the time of the 
Mexican border crisis, as a Private in Battery A, 1st 
F.A., Mass. N.G. In May, 1917, transferred to the 
Aviation Section, S.R.C. Trained at the Boston 
Technology Ground School, and at the Mt. Clemens, 
Mich., Flying School. Commissioned in Nov. at Min- 
eola, L.I., and went in Dec. as 1st Lieutenant, U.S.A.S., 
to the flying school at Lake Charles, La. Sailed for 



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overseas March 3, 1918. Trained in France at ^he 
flying school at Issoudun. Went to the front and 
served as a Pilot from June 7 until the armistice with 
the 12th Aero Squadron, 1st Observation Group, as 
follows : June 7 to 30, Baccarat sector, Alsace, with 
the 42nd and 77th Divisions ; June 30 to mid- Aug., 
Chateau-Thierry drive; Sept., St. Mihiel drive; Sept.- 
Oct., Meu:se-Argonne offensive. Flight Commander 
in the 12th Aero Squadron. In the middle of Oct., 
transferred to the 95th Aero Squadron, which was a 
pursuit squadron. Served as a Pilot in this from Oct. 
15 to Nov. 11, 1918. Received a citation from the 
U.S. Army, dated Sept. 13, 1918, as follows: 

"For gallantry in action near St. Mihiel, France, 13 
September, 1918, while on a reconnoissance." 



WILLIAM GREENOUGH THAYER, Jr., 1911. 

Commissioned 2nd Lieutenant at Plattsburg, Aug. 
15, 1917, and assigned to the 151st Depot Brigade, 
Camp Devens, Mass. Transferred to the Officers' 
School Jan. 5, 1918, and to the 301st Sanitary Train 
July 1. Sailed for overseas July 11. Joined the 301st 
Infantry Nov. 1 and the Prisoner of War Escort Com- 
pany Dec. 1. Discharged July 15, 1919. 



De WITT VAN BOSKERCK THOMAS, Ex-1918. 

Enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps, July 14, 1918, 
as a Private. July 14 to Sept. 15, attached to Com- 
pany 246, Marine Barracks, Paris Island, S.C. Sept. 



240 SAINT MARK'S SCHOOL IN THE 

15 to Oct. 10, attached to Company F, 11th Regiment, 
Marine Barracks, Quantico, Va., and from Oct. 10 
to Dec. 4, to the Barracks Detachment, Marine Bar- 
racks, Quantico, Va. From Sept. 23 to Oct. 24, ill at 
the Base Hospital, Quantico, Va. Dec. 4 to Aug. 7, 
1919, attached to the Supply Detachment, Quantico, 
Va. Appointed Sergeant Apr. 19, Quartermaster Ser- 
geant May 29, and discharged as Quartermaster Ser- 
geant Aug. 7, 1919. 



FREDERICK HERRICK THOMAS, 1903. 

Sept. 10, 1918, enlisted as a Private in the Infantry, 
20th Company, 5th Battalion, C.O.T.S., Camp Lee, Va. 
Discharged Nov. 23, 1918. 



W^ILLIAM PAYNE THOMPSON, 2nd, 1915. 

Ensign in the L^.S. Naval Aviation Forces ; Execu- 
tive Officer in the Naval Aviation Ground School, Mass. 
Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass. ; Personnel 
Officer and Patrol Pilot at the Naval Air Station, 
Hampton Roads, Va. 



HENRY SANFORD THORNE, 1916. 

Enlisted in Company K, N.Y.N.G., Apr. 11, 1917. 
Enlisted as a Private of the 1st class, A.S., S.C., July 
1. Commissioned 2nd Lieutenant, A.S.A., Reserve Mil- 



WAR AGAINST GERMANY 241 

itary Aviator, Feb. 1, 1918. Stations and posts were 
as follows : Princeton Ground School ; Hazelhurst Field ; 
Gerstner Field; Camp Dick; Ellington Field; Talia- 
ferro Field; Ellington Field. Held command of the 
189th U.S. Aero Squadron. Honorably discharged 
March 1, 1919. 



WILLIAM WHARTON THURSTON, 1895. 

Entered the R.O.T.C., San Francisco, May 12, 
1917. Commissioned Captain, F.A., U.S.N.A., Aug. 
15, and ordered to the 91st Division, Camp Lewis, 
Washington. Transferred to the 35th Division, Camp 
Doniphan, Okla., Sept. 10. At the School of Fire for 
F.A., Fort Sill, Okla., from Oct. 1 to Dec. 23. At- 
tached to Hq., 60th F.A. Brigade, Camp Doniphan, 
Jan. 1, 1918. Commissioned Major, F.A., March 29, 
and assigned to the 130th Regiment, F.A. Sailed from 
New York May 19. In action, Gerardmer sector, 
Vosges, from Aug. 15 to 31, in command of 1st Battal- 
ion, 130th F.A. Assumed command of the 130th F.A. 
as Major Sept. 2. In reserve at St. Mihiel from Sept. 
10 to 15; in action in Argonne Sept. 25 to Oct. 2; 
in action near Verdun Oct. IT to Nov. 11. Commis- 
sioned Lieutenant-Colonel Oct. 26. Commissioned 
Colonel (temporary), F.A., March 23, 1919, and to 
command the 130th F.A., having relinquished command 
Nov. 9, 1918. Sailed from Brest for home Apr. 13, 
1919. Discharged from the service Apr. 29, 1919. 



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MARMADUKE TILDEN, Jr., 1901. 

Commissioned 1st Lieutenant, S.C., Oct. 31, 1917, 
assigned to Aero Squadron 80. Sailed for France, Nov. 
22, 1917. Engaged in construction work from Dec. 
6 to May, 1918. Assigned to special work with the 
Intelligence Service, G-2, from May, 1918, to Apr., 
1919. Returned to the U.S.A., and was honorably 
discharged March 4, 1919. 



ALEXANDER HADDEN TOMES, 1909. 

Attended the 1st Plattsburg Camp from May to 
Aug., 1917 ; commissioned Captain, F.A., in Aug. ; 
commanded Hq. Company, 306 F.A., 77th Division, at 
Camp Upton from Sept., 1917, to Apr., 1918, and left 
for France with regiment and company in Apr., 1918. 
Attended the artillery training course with the regi- 
ment at Camp de Songe, in France, in May and June, 
1918. Assigned to duty on the staff of the Chief of Ar- 
tillery, 1st Army, in June ; 1st Corps, in July ; 1st Army, 
re-assigned, in Aug., 1918. In Sept., 1918, assigned to 
liaison duty Math a group of French escadrilles during 
the St. Mihiel offensive. From Sept. to Jan., 1919, on 
duty on the staff of the Chief of Artillery, 1st Army; 
and from Jan. reassigned to duty with the 306th F.A., 
77th Division. In Apr., 1919, honorably discharged 
from service in France. Took part in the following en- 
gagements: Marne-Aisne offensive, July- Aug., 1918; 
St. Mihiel offensive in Sept. ; Meuse-Argonne offen- 
sive, Sept.-Nov. 



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CASPAR WISTAR BARTON TOWNSEND, 1912. 

Enlisted July 5, 1917, as an Apprentice Seaman, 
U.S.N.R.F., and did coast patrol duty on S.P. 602 
until Feb. 1, 1918. Made Ensign, U.S.N.R.F., Feb. 1. 
At the O.T.S., U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, Md., 
from Feb. 1 to June 1. Served on U.S.S. Pennsylvania 
as Ensign (temporary), U.S.N. , until Sept. 13; on 
U.S.S. Montgomery; and on Destroyer 121 on escort 
duty, from Sept. 13 to Dec. 16. Made Lieutenant 
(j.g.) (temporary), Nov. 1. Resigned Dec. 16, 1918. 



BAYARD TUCKERMAN, Jr., 1908. 

Commissioned Nov. 27, 1917, as 2nd Lieutenant of 
Infantry, N.A., O.R.T.C. Transferred to the Remount 
Service, and bought horses in Kentucky ; and served at 
the Remount Depot, Camp Shelby, Miss., as Assistant 
to the Remount Officer. Sailed in June, 1918. Served 
as Assistant Remount Officer, Remount Depot, Selle- 
sur-Cher; Assistant to Remount Officer, Advanced 
Section, 1st Army, 1st Corps; Remount Officer, 77th 
Division. Promoted to 1st Lieutenant in Oct., 1918. 
Returned to the U.S. and was discharged in Feb., 
1919. 

ROGER TUCKERMAN, 1916. 

Enlisted as a Private in Squadron A, N.Y. Cavalry, 
May 14, 1917. Transferred to the A.S., and sent to 
the ground school at Austin, Tex., Nov. 16; commis- 



244 SAINT MARK'S SCHOOL IN THE 

sioned as 2nd Lieutenant, A.S., and qualified as Pilot, 
March 26, 1918; and was assigned as Instructor in 
aerial bombardment Aug. 6. Discharged from the 
service Jan. 9, 1919. 



ROBERT JAMES TURNBULL, 1894. 

Enlisted in the First O.T.C. at Plattsburg, May 
12, 1917. Commissioned Captain of Cavalry, N.A., 
Aug. 15. Assigned to Company B, 305 M.G. Battal- 
ion, Sept. 5. Commissioned Captain of Infantry, N.A., 
Dec. 15, the previous commission being withdrawn. 
Sailed March 28, 1918; arrived in England Apr. 10, 
and in France Apr. 11. Arrived in the U.S. Apr. 24, 
1919, and was discharged May 10. Took part in the 
following battles, etc. : Baccarat sector, Vesle sector, 
Oise-Aisne offensive, Meuse-Argonne offensive. 



HARRISON TWEED, 1903. 

Enlisted in the U.S. Army Aug. 29, 1918, at Camp 
Zachary Taylor, Ky., and was assigned there to the 
F.A., C.O.T.S. Graduated Dec. 11, 1918, and was 
honorably discharged from the service. 



GEORGE FREDERICK TYLER, 1901. 

Entered the 1st O.T.C. at Fort Niagara, N.Y., 
May 12, 1917. Commissioned 1st Lieutenant, F.A., 
O.R.C., Aug. 15. Assigned to Hq. Company, 311th 
F.A., 79th Division, Camp Meade, Md., Aug. 27. As- 



WAR AGAINST GERMANY 245 

signed to duty with the General Staff, in the office of 
the Assistant Secretary of War, Feb. 1, 1918. Com- 
missioned Major, U.S.A., Feb. 18. Sailed for France 
July 4, and was assigned to duty with G-2, General 
Hq., A.E.F. Returned to the U.S. Oct. 25, and was 
discharged Dec. 30, 1918. 



HAROLD STIRLING VANDERBILT, 1903. 

Commissioned as Lieutenant (j.g.), U.S.N.R.F., in 
the latter part of March, 1917, called to active service 
Apr. 9, 1917, and ordered to command U.S.S. S.P. 56. 
In command of this patrol boat until July 20. The 
boat during this time was in service in the 2nd Naval 
District, and also attached to the Atlantic Fleet, 
Squadron 2, Nantucket Patrol. July 20, transferred to 
the command of the Block Island Section, 2nd Naval 
District, and Nov. 17 to the command of the New Lon- 
don Section, 2nd Naval District. In Feb., 1918, the 
New London Section, in common with other naval 
activities at New London, became a part of the Naval 
District Base at New London. Continued in charge of 
the Patrol Section at that base until July 17; was then 
detached and ordered to report to the Commander of 
the U.S. Naval Force operating in European waters 
for duty in connection with submarine-chasers ; this 
transfer being made at the request of the Commander of 
the Naval District Base at New London, who himself 
received similar orders. Remained on duty with Sub- 
marine-chaser Detachment 3 in Queenstown, Ireland, 
from Aug., 1918, until Nov. 25, when the Submarine- 
chaser Detachment was disbanded. Then obtained 



246 SAINT MARK'S SCHOOL IN THE 

orders to return to the U S. Sept. 21, promoted to 
the rank of Lieutenant, Class 2, U.S.N.R.F. Dec. 30, 
1918, placed on inactive duty, but still holding a 
commission as Lieutenant in the U.S.N.R.F. 



WILLIAM KISSAM VANDERBILT, Jr., 1898. 

May 9, 1917, went into active service in command of 
U.S.S. Tarantula (S.P. 124) at the Brooklyn Navy 
Yard, and was assigned to patrol duty in the waters 
of District 6, performing convoy duty, etc. Remained 
in command of this ship until Oct. 1. Then given tem- 
porary leave of absence to resume duties of Vice-Presi- 
dent of the New York Central Lines, and a few months 
later was elected President of these Lines. Acted in 
this capacity during the remainder of the war. 



KILIAEN MAUNSELL VAN RENSSELAER, 
1917. 

Enlisted as a Private in the Med. C. Sept. 3, 1917. 
Sailed for France Oct. 3, arrived in England Oct. 17, 
and in France Oct. 22. Attached to Base Hospital 2, 
B.E.F., until May, 1918; then transferred to Mobile 
Hospital 2, A.E.F. Took part in the following en- 
gagements : against the last German offensive, Cham- 
pagne sector, July 14 to 18, 1918; Marne offensive, 
July 18 to 29; St. Mihiel offensive, Sept. 12 to 17; 
Meuse-Argonne offensive, Sept. 26 to Nov. 11. Served 
with the Army of Occupation in Trier, Dec. 6 to 20. 
Arrived in the U.S. Feb. 3, 1919, and was discharged 
at Camp Meade, Feb. 17. 



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►I^JOHN BRODHEAD VAN SCHAICK, 1883. 

John Brodhead Van Schaick, the son of the late 
Jenkins Van Schaick, was born on the thirteenth of 
March, 1865. He attended Phillips Exeter Academy 
and St. Mark's, the latter from 1877 to 1880. He was 
a graduate of Jesus College, Cambridge, England, and 
of the Harvard Law School. He became a member of 
the late banking firm of Van Schaick and Company, 
and was a member of the New York Stock Exchange. 

At the outbreak of the war he sailed for France, on 
the twelfth of December, to enter the Ambulance Corps 
organized by Eliot Norton. He was stationed until 
June, 1915, north of Compiegne, where he saw much 
service during the first year as an Ambulance Attend- 
ant, bringing in the wounded from the front. It was 
at this time that Mrs. Chauncey Depew, Jr., the late 
Mrs. Trenor L. Park, whose husband was a St. Mark's 
graduate, gave up her chateau just outside of Paris 
for an American hospital. Mrs. Van Schaick served 
here as a Red Cross Nurse until ill health obliged her 
to return to America. The next year Van Schaick 
went to Belgium with the Relief Service under Mr. 
Hoover. At Antwerp his services were acknowledged 
with the highest honors, amongst which were the gift 
of the Key of the City and a set of embossed resolu- 
tions, together with a gold medal, from the Mayor and 
the Common Council, for valiant and efficient services 
rendered. When driven from the city by the Ger- 
mans, he was forced to return to America in September, 
1916, Here he devoted his time to Relief Commission 
work and to the Red Cross. 



248 SAINT MARK'S SCHOOL IN THE 

When the United States entered the war he left no 
stone unturned to obtain a place in the service of his 
country; but because of his age he was repeatedly 
disappointed, until at last he offered himself to the 
Red Cross. He was promptly accepted; obtained his 
commission in April, 1918; and was sent overseas to 
Italy. In March he joined the French, and served 
with them until the armistice. He was then transferred 
to the American Expeditionary Force, and started into 
Germany with the Twelfth Machine Gun Battalion, 
marching on foot. He was soon stricken with influenza, 
but continued his march for four days longer. Then, on 
the fourth of December, he was sent back to Treves, 
Germany, suffering from dilatation of the heart, and 
died on the eleventh of December, 1918, at the age of 
fifty-four. He was buried in a cemetery in the city of 
Treves. 

Van Schaick, the oldest of our graduates in the ser- 
vice, was of course not known personally as a St. 
Mark's boy to any of the present members of the 
community. The time will soon come when this will 
be true of all who represented our School in the war 
against Germany, and when the love and gratitude of 
their companions here must give place to the changeless 
records which they have made for the School. And 
"Van Schaick's record not only speaks for itself, but in 
a certain sense for all ; it corroborates our pride in our 
boys, telling in certain tones what power it was that 
formed them for loyalty and service. In full vigor and 
prosperity, far beyond the formal claim of his coun- 
try's call and long before she issued it, he chose to 
abide by no such circumstances, and marched forth 
with the Young Men in the hour of her need, until the 








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WAR AGAINST GERMANY 249 

last sacrifice was laid upon her altar. As we look upon 
what he has done our hearts go out to him, and claim 
him as one of us with a deeper pride than we have ever 
known before ; and as the graduate returns to his school 
and loves the new young wearers of the blue and white, 
so our love goes, with our reverence and our grati- 
tude, to this St. Mark's boy of former years in whom 
the spirit .could never fail. 



GUY WARREN WALKER, Jr., 1916. 

Enlisted in Battery D, 1st Mass. F.A., June 23, 
1916. Stationed at El Paso, Tex., from July 1 to Oct. 
1. Discharged in Feb., 1917, to join the Harvard 
R.O.T.C. Enlisted May 3, 1917, in Company C, 101st 
Engineers, 26th Division. Promoted to Corporal in 
June. Sailed for France in Sept. Served at the Toul 
front from Apr. to the end of June, 1918; at Chateau- 
Thierry in July ; at St. Mihiel in Sept. ; and at Verdun 
in Oct., and until the armistice in Nov. Transferred 
to Hq. Company, 102nd F.A., 26th Division, in Oct., 
returning to the grade of Private. Returned to the 
U.S. in Apr., 1919, and was discharged with the Divi- 
sion at Camp Devens. 



EDWARD ROWLAND WARDWELL, 1907. 

Enrolled in the U.S.N.R. Apr. 16, 1917, with the 
rating of Chief Boatswain's Mate, and was stationed 
at Newport, R.I. Commissioned as Ensign, U.S.N.R.F., 
Nov. 28. On board U.S.S. Seattle, doing convoy duty, 



250 SAINT MARK'S SCHOOL IN THE 

from Dec. 1917 until Apr., 1918; then ordered to the 
Philippine Islands. Received appointment as Ensign 
(temporary) U.S.N., June 1, and as Lieutenant (j.g.) 
(temporary), U.S.N. Sept. 21, 1918. Resignation ac- 
cepted and effective July 14, 1919. 



LIVINGSTON WATROUS, Ex-1908. 

Commissioned 2nd Lieutenant of Infantry in Oct., 
1911. Did duty with the 25th Infantry as Company 
Officer and Battalion Q.M.C. Promoted to 1st Lieu- 
tenant of Infantry in July, 1916, and did staff duty. 
Promoted to Captain of Infantry in May, 1917, and 
did duty with the 42nd Infantry. Promoted to Major 
of Infantry in June, 1918, on duty with the 153rd De- 
pot Brigade. Transferred to the 807th Pioneer In- 
fantry in Aug., and served with them in the Meuse- 
Argonne offensive. Transferred in Feb., 1919, and 
assigned as Executive Officer, A.E.F., at the University 
of Beaune, Cote d'Or, until June. Awarded the deco- 
ration of "Officier Instruction Publique" by the French 
Government. Now [Dec. 9, 1919] on duty with the 
War Plans Division, General Staff, Washington, D.C. 



WILLIAM WATSON, 1902. 

Commissioned 2nd Lieutenant of Cavalry in Aug., 

1917, and assigned to the M.G. Company, 117th In- 
fantry, U.S.A., in Sept. Arrived in France in May, 

1918. Promoted to 1st Lieutenant of Infantry, U.S.A., 



WAR AGAINST GERMANY 251 

Nov. 7, 1918. Took part in all the engagements par- 
ticipated in by the 30th Division, which were as fol- 
lows : in Belgium, Ypres (Canal sector), Aug. 31 to 
Sept. 2, 1918; in France, the battle of Bellicourt, Sept. 
29 to Sept. 30; the battle of Montbrehain, Oct. 8 to 
Oct. 11 ; and the battle of La Selle River, Oct. 17 to 
Oct. 20. In these engagements the advance was so 
rapid and the regiment was withdrawn so soon that 
there was never an opportunity to count, collect or 
salvage the great number of guns and the tremendous 
amount of stores captured. A partial check shows that 
the division captured the following: 72 field artillery 
pieces, 26 trench mortars, 426 machine-guns, and 
1,792 rifles. The total number of men cited in General 
Orders for extraordinary bravery in action, to Feb. 
1, was 411. There were 56 British decorations 
awarded, and 189 American. Returned to the U.S. 
in April, 1919. The citation for the Military Cross, 
awarded by the British Government, is as follows: 

"On 29th Sept., 1918, this officer as Transport 
Ofl^cer of the Machine Gun Company 117th Inf., dis- 
played a loyal devotion to duty by taking water and 
hot food to his Company located in the line near Belli- 
court, although subjected to heavy shell fire and aero- 
plane bombing. On the 8th to 9th of October, 1918, he 
got water and hot food to his Company, north of Mont- 
brehain before nightfall, which greatly cheered and 
stimulated the men who had to go over the top again 
on the morning of the 9th. He was untiring in his 
efforts to get all the comforts possible for the men." 



252 SAINT MARK'S SCHOOL IN THE 
JOHN MURRAY WATTS, 1897. 

Commissioned Aug. 1, 1918, as Captain, Company 
E, 57th Engineers, and served in the A.E.F. for nearly 
a year. Discharged July 19, 1919. Previous military 
experience, Spanish War, Battery A, 1st Conn. F.A. 

LOTHROP MOTLEY WELD, 1916. 

Enlisted at Boston, Apr. 4, 1917, and entered active 
service July 1, as a Seaman of the 2nd class, assigned 
to the Naval Air Station at Pensacola, Fla. Received 
a Pilot's license Sept. 20, Quartermaster of the 1st 
class. Commissioned Ensign in the U.S.N.R.F. Jan. 8, 
1918, and ordered to Hicks Field, Fort Worth, Tex., 
for duty with the R.A.F., Feb. 7. Ordered to Hampton 
Roads, Va., for instruction on H-12 and H-16 flying 
boats, March 3. Ordered to Bay Shore, L.L, Apr. 4, 
and to Port Washington, L.I., to test Smith Fighter. 
Oct. 1, commissioned Lieutenant (j.g.), U.S.N.R.F. 
Dec. 7, flew from Bay Shore to Brunswick, Ga. Or- 
dered to Miami, Fla., Jan. 8, 1919, and put on inactive 
duty March 20. 

blt:.keley livermore wells, 1915. 

Enlisted Apr. 6, 1917, in the U.S.N.R.F. as a 
Seaman of the 2nd class, and Apr. 19 was assigned to 
active duty with this rating. June 27, promoted to 
the rank of Ensign, U.S.N.R., and sent to the Naval 
Academy for training. Sept. 14, completed the course 
at the Academy, and was promoted to Ensign (tem- 



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porary) U.S.N. Nov. 14, assumed command of U.S. 
Submarine-chaser 254, and proceeded with her to New 
London, Conn. Jan. 5, 1918, detached from command 
of U.S. Submarine-chaser 254, and assigned to anti- 
submarine work at New London, remaining there un- 
til discharged. June 1, promoted to Lieutenant (j.g.), 
(temporary), U.S.N., and Sept. 21 promoted to Lieu- 
tenant (temporary), U.S.N. March 4, 1919, resigna- 
tion of last commission accepted. The work at New 
London consisted for five months of the development 
of listening devices and anti-submarine tactics ; for four 
months of the instruction of enlisted men in the use of 
the devices ; and for five months of commanding officers' 
school of instruction in the devices. Published two 
pamphlets on anti-submarine tactics and listening de- 
vice school. 



CORTLANDT STUYVESANT WHEELER, 
1903. 

Enlisted three times, each time being rejected on 
account of a recent operation. Sailed for France in 
Oct., 1917, to enter the Personnel Bureau in the Paris 
Office of the A.R.C. After a time was given the rank 
of 1st Lieutenant and put in charge. When the Ger- 
man drive started in March, 1918, volunteered to go to 
the front with supplies, and March 27 left Paris on 
half-an-hour's notice and continued in the A.R.C. ser- 
vice at the front until the armistice. Served at Com- 
pi^gne, Jouy-sur-Morin, Chateau-Thierry, Montmirail, 
and the Argonne. Received a Captain's commission 
early in the summer of 1918. 



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LAWRENCE GRANT WHITE, 1904. 

Went to the 1st Plattsburg Training, Camp in Aug., 
1915. Joined the New York Naval Militia, Aviation 
Section, in Apr., 1916, and the National Naval Volun- 
teers in Apr., 1917. Naval Aviator No. 176, Nov. 15, 
1917. Made Ensign, U.S.N.R.F., Class 5, Dec. 12; 
and became Executive Officer, U.S. Naval Aviation 
Forces, Italy, in Apr., 1918. Commissioned Lieuten- 
ant (j.g.) Oct. 1 ; Lieutenant (s.g.), Jan. 1, 1919; and 
became Naval Aide to the Commander-in-Chief Jan. 3, 
1919. Placed upon inactive service March 16, 1919. 



BACHE McEVERS WHITLOCK, 1908. 

Enlisted Aug. 9, 1917, in the U.S.N.R.F. Called 
to duty as Chief Boatswain's Mate Aug. 27, 1917, shore 
duty, and commissioned Jan. 3, 1918, shore duty until 
July 25, 1918. Then went on a submarine-chaser in 
the 3rd Naval District until Sept. 9, and thereafter 
served on U.S.S. North Carolina until discharged Dec. 
2, 1918. 



FREDERICK SIMONDS WHITLOCK, 1912. 

Enlisted in the U.S.N.R. May 3, 1917. Served as 
G.M. of the second class on S.P. 56 off Newport until 
the end of Sept. Commissioned Ensign Oct. 3, and 
ordered as Executive Officer to U.S. Submarine-chaser 
130 at Norfolk. Left New London for Corfu, Greece, 



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Apr. 25, and arrived about the end of June. Stationed 
at Corfu working on the Otranto Barrage until the 
armistice. Ordered to command U.S. Submarine-chaser 
216, Aug. 25, and was made Lieutenant (j.g.)? Jan. 16, 
1919. Arrived in the U.S. with U.S. Submarine-chaser 
216 May 16, 1919. 



ARMITAGE WHITMAN, 1905. 

Ordered into active service May 10, 1917, and sailed 
as Orthopaedic Surgeon to the Presbyterian Unit (U.S. 
Base Hospital 2) May 14, the first troops to leave New 
York, and the second unit to arrive abroad. Arrived in 
France May 30, and took over General Hospital No. 
1, B.E.F. Sent to the front as head of operating team, 
with Barclay Parsons '06 as assistant, in Nov., 1917. 
Served at Casualty Clearing Stations Nos. 11, 21, 29, 
during the battles of Passchendaele and Cambrai. 
Transferred to the A.E.F. in Feb., 1918, and sent to 
Base Hospital 15 as Orthopaedic Surgeon. Apr. 18, 
sent to the 1st French Army as Assistant Surgeon on 
the operating team, and detailed to ambulances 5/65 
at the Centre Hospitalier de Dury, two kilometers south 
of Amiens. Arrived for the battle of Villers Breton- 
neux, and remained until May 30. June 15, sent to 
Evacuation Hospital 7 as Assistant Surgeon on the 
operating team, remaining there at Coulommiers until 
Aug. 11, through the Belleau Wood and Chateau- 
Thierry offensives. Then transferred to Mobile Hos- 
pital 2 at Coincy, and moved with them to Recourt for 
the battle of St. Mihiel, and at the end of Sept. to 
Rarecourt for the battle of the Argonne. At that time 



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was head of the operating team. Transferred to Evac- 
uation Hospital 6 Oct. 18, and remained there until 
after the armistice. Transferred back to Base Hos- 
pital No. 2 Dec. 26, 1918, and returned with them to 
the U.S. Mustered out at Camp Meade, Md., Feb. 13, 
1919. Rank, Captain, Med. C. Battles engaged in: 
Passchendaele, Cambrai, Amiens (1st German offensive, 
March- Apr., 1918), Belleau Wood, Chateau-Thierry, 
June- July ; Aisne, Oise, Aug. ; St. Mihiel, Sept. ; Ar- 
gonne-Meuse, Sept., Oct., Nov., 1918. 



HAROLD CUTLER WHITMAN, 1901. 

Called to active service as Captain, Q.M.C., U.S.A., 
Apr. 18, 1917. Assistant to the Depot Quartermaster, 
Boston, Mass. Jan. 2, 1918, transferred to Washing- 
ton, D.C., as Assistant and Aide to the Acting Quarter- 
master General. July 10 went overseas, and was sta- 
tioned at Paris in charge of purchasing, in the office 
of the Chief Purchasing Agent, Q.M.C. Promoted to 
the rank of Major May 1. Received the decoration of 
Chevalier de I'Ordre National de la Legion d'Honneur, 
Apr. 4, 1919. Discharged Jan. 28, 1919. 



^HOLYOKE LEWIS WHITNEY, 1916. 

HoLYOKE Lewis Whitney was born in Boston on 
the thirteenth of January, 1897, the son of Rich- 
ard S. Whitney and Mary (Lewis) Whitney. After 
attending private and primary schools in Dedham he 
went to Germany to learn the language, settled in Han- 




HOLYOKE LEWIS WHITNEY 



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over, and attended the Guildermeister School. On his 
return to America two and a half years later he was 
prepared by a private tutor to enter St. Mark's, as 
while abroad he lacked the teaching in certain branches 
required for entrance. He entered the First Form in 
1910, and graduated in 1916. While at school he was 
of marked ability in athletics, and played on the eleven. 
He was also chosen as a monitor because of his loy- 
alty to St. Mark's and the confidence he had won from 
the other members of the school. He entered Harvard 
in 1916, and there continued his successful activity in 
athletics, playing on the freshman eleven against Yale, 
and rowing on the crew. He joined the R.O.T.C., and 
in the summer of 1917 went again to Plattsburg, re- 
turning to Harvard in the fall. 

On January fifth, 1918, he went to the Officers' 
Training School at Camp Upton, and in April elected 
to go abroad and finish his training. He was made 
Sergeant of Company E, 305th Infantry, and on the 
thirteenth of July received his commission as Second 
Lieutenant, and was sent to Company K, 109th In- 
fantry, a part of the Twenty-eighth Division. He was 
wounded in the foot by shrapnel about the first of 
October, and returned to his Company a short time 
before the armistice was declared. He was accidentally 
shot while cleaning his pistol, at Woinville, France, on 
the twenty-fifth of November, and was buried with full 
military honors in a cemetery near Buxerulles, France. 
A short time before his death he had been recommended 
by Major Machen, of his Company, for his first lieu- 
tenancy. 

He seems thoroughly to have enjoyed his experience 
in the ranks, and gave it as his conviction that from 



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there only could an adequate account of the war be 
written. He had a very strong artistic sense, and con- 
siderable ability in drawing. The following descrip- 
tion of a night march taken from a letter, is character- 
istic of his marked skill in writing: "Everything is 
quiet ; no talking and no smoking. All that can be 
seen is rank after rank of men with soup-bowl steel 
hats, and packs that make them look somehow deformed 
in the dusk. The sense of their deformity is heightened 
by the gas masks worn on their chests^ and the rifle- 
barrels sticking up at all possible angles. The column 
is only half seen, and at a little distance the only indi- 
cation that there are marching troops is a vague, dark 
blur, and the steady clump, clump of marching feet, 
together with the occasional rattle of a bayonet in the 
scabbard, or a low-voiced command passing down the 
column from man to man. And when they fall out for 
a rest the stacked rifles stand out black against the sky, 
and the men are a solid, unquiet, whispering mass. The 
silence is broken only by a few whisperings in the air, 
which are shells ; and crashes, which are guns and 
bursting shrapnel. . . . There is a subtle difference 
in the French troops ; their hats are more curved and 
narrower, and they always wear their long overcoats. 
Their packs are different, too, and they carry their 
long, thin rifles with the barrels pointing straight up. 
Their blue uniforms are practically invisible at night 
and at dawn, and they march with a quicker step than 
our men, probably because they are smaller, which 
almost gives the impression of a shuffle. Certainly it 
is quiet and eager." 

Holyoke Whitney, like Edwin Abbey, has through 
his unusual gift of expression unconsciously left behind 



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him in his letters the record of a faith which is priceless 
to American manhood. Plunged from all he loved into 
an apparently senseless, hopeless welter of good and 
evil, his sensitive spirit rose cleanly and strongly above 
it, and surveyed it with the undeceived eye of the sol- 
dier of Christ. He says in his letters, "the whole busi- 
ness is sensible," and "I believe that God ordains that 
all things have their reasons, and that He allows noth- 
ing to be wrong at last." "Patrols and working-par- 
ties, billets and generals and 'strikers' and mess, and 
men of the South and men of the North, foreigners 
and Jews and men of other armies, and traits and ex- 
periences and faults and brutality and fineness and sor- 
row and apathy and recklessness and cold nerve !" And 
also, — although Whitney was not conscious of how the 
mighty leaven was working through such men as him- 
self, — deathless faith and purity of purpose, for in 
truth "God allows nothing to go wrong at last !" The 
kindliness, the saving humor, the love, the magnificent 
manhood which cried out in agony only at the death of 
a friend, — these were what such as Whitney brought 
to the apparently hopeless chaos. Of himself he could 
think only as touching what should be required of 
him: "If I am called I shall be proud and very happy. 
I hardly dare think of the honor as belonging to myself, 
for I have seen it, and cannot describe it." But the 
honor, the undying honor came to this boy who loved 
mother, father and brother, friend, school and country 
above all else, and counted it a pride and a happiness 
to lay down his life for their sakes ; and so, like the sun- 
set after storm, all was at last right with the world. 

Although we could not measure its strength, Whit- 
ney's companions at St. Mark's knew and reverenced 



260 SAINT MARK'S SCHOOL IN THE 

the spirit that was in him. Fearless and manly, inde- 
pendent, keenly humorous and sincere, he nevertheless 
drew the breath of his life from the love of his relatives 
and friends : the world would have been unintelligible to 
him without it. He tells how he shall try when he re- 
turns to say what is in his heart to those whose love 
is all in all to him at his post in the world's awful task, 
as though it were he that was the debtor. But his noble 
letters reveal a faith that is unshakable, and we know 
that here is the eternal rock against which no evil can 
ever prevail. He died for his faith, as heroes die, by 
the merest chance; but though we mourn him as it is 
permitted us to mourn, his manhood and devotion will 
never call in vain to all that is strong and unselfish in 
the School that he loved and honored. 



CUTLER BONESTELL WHITWELL, 1901. 

Entered the Y.M.C.A. service Jan. 1, 1918, as Di- 
rector of Athletics at Camp Hill, Ya,, and resigned 
Aug. 1. Commissioned 1st Lieutenant of Engineers 
Aug. 13, and ordered to the 4th Engineer O.T.C. at 
Camp Humphreys, Va. Belonged to Company A, which 
constructed a 225-foot pontoon bridge on the Potomac 
River in fifteen minutes, eleven and three-fifths seconds, 
breaking the world's record by more than a minute. 
Oct. 28, assigned to duty with the 4th Engineer Train- 
ing Regiment, Camp Humphreys. Assigned Dec. 1 to 
special duty in charge of road construction at Camp 
Humphreys. Honorably discharged from service at 
the same Camp Jan. 8, 1919. 



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CORNELIUS WENDELL WICKERSHAM, 1901. 

After, being discharged from the Federal service on 
return from the Mexican border, re-entered the Federal 
service July 25, 1917, as a Captain of Infantry, and 
was assigned to the command of the 1st Company, Mil- 
itary Police, 27th Division. Assigned Dec. 8 to the 
General Staff, and appointed Assistant Chief of 
Staff, G-3, 27th Division. Sailed for France in 
Feb., 1918, to attend the Army General Staff 
College at Langres ; graduated May 30 ; was as- 
signed as Observer at the front for one week; 
then assigned as Assistant Chief of Staff, 27th 
Division, and served also as Assistant G-3, 2nd Corps, 
A.E.F., until July 15. Served with the 27th Division 
in Flanders, and was then assigned as Assistant G-3, 
4th Corps, A.E.F., in charge of the Operations Bureau 
of the 3rd Section of the General Staff, 4th Corps. 
Served through the St. Mihiel battle, and until Sept. 
25, when appointed Assistant G-3 in charge of the 
Operations Bureau, 3rd Section, General Staff, 2nd 
Army, A.E.F. Later appointed Deputy G-3, 2nd 
Army, and served with it through the final operations 
of the war. After the armistice, Dec. 20, was assigned 
to special work at General Hq. Promoted to Major 
Aug. 13, 1918; recommended by General Pershing for 
promotion to Lieutenant-Colonel ; subsequently recom- 
mended for promotion to Colonel ; and recommended 
for the Distinguished Service Medal. Returned home 
in Feb., 1919, and was discharged Feb. 19. Cited by 
General Pershing for services at St. Mihiel; awarded 
the Legion of Honor (Chevalier) by the French Gov- 
ernment; and made Commander, Order of Danilo of 



262 SAINT MARK'S SCHOOL IN THE 

Montenegro. Took part in the battles of St. Mihiel, 
and in the final operations of the 2nd Army, A.E.F. 
The citation from General Pershing is "for excep- 
tionally meritorious and conspicuous services." 



FORSYTH WICKES, 1894. 

Entered the Plattsburg Training Camp in Aug., 

1917, and received a commission as Captain of Infantry 
Nov. 8, 1917. Assigned immediately to overseas ser- 
vice with the War Risk Insurance. Arrived in Paris 
Dec. 26, and was assigned to direct the writing of war 
risk insurance among officers and men of the 1st, 2nd, 
42nd and 26th Divisions stationed at Neuf Chateau. 
Feb. 1, 1918, appointed Assistant Chief Liaison Officer 
for the purpose of organizing liaison service in and 
about Paris, and with the army in the field. Stationed 
in Paris. At the end of March, 1918, assigned to the 
Staff of the 1st Division, and served with the 1st Divi- 
sion in Apr., May and June, being stationed during this 
period with the 162nd and 60th French Divisions. 
Transferred in July to the Staff of the 5th American 
Corps, and stationed with the 33rd French Corps in the 
Vosges, remaining there until Sept. Then assigned 
by G-3 at Chaumont to the Staff of General Maistre, 
commanding the French Group of Armies of the Centre, 
and remained there until Dec. 19, 1918. Sept. 12, 

1918, promoted to Major of Infantry. The 1st Divi- 
sion (American) and the 162nd and 60th French Divi- 
sions held a portion of the line in front of Montdidier. 
The 33rd French Corps held the Vosges mountains from 
north of St. Die to Thann. General Maistre com- 



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manded the 4)th and 5th French Armies on the left of 
the American 1st Army in the Argonne. Ordered home 
in Dec, 1918, and mustered out of the service Jan. 7, 
1919. Awarded the Distinguished Service Medal, and 
the Cross of the Legion of Honor, and was also cited 
by General Maistre. The citations follow. 

By General Maistre: "II a execute tout d'abordle ser- 
vice de liaison avec les D.I. americaines, qui ont pris 
part aux operations de la IV Armee. Au cours des 
operations de cette Armee en combinaison avec I'Armee 
americaine, du ler au 7 novembre, il a assure une 
liaison tres suivie entre le Groupe d'Armees et I'Armee 
americaine. Grace a sa haute valeur personelle, a ses 
sentiments eleves, a son tact parfait, aux connaissances 
techniques et a I'experience acquise au cours de ses 
stages anterieurs dans les Etats-Majors fran9ais et 
americains, ainsi qu'aux sympathies qu'il a su s'y creer, 
le Major Wickes a ete un collaborateur des plus pre- 
cieux pour I'Etat-Major du Groupe d'Armees. 
Maistre." 

"The Distinguished Service Medal is awarded to you 
for exceptionally meritorious and distinguished ser- 
vices." "He showed rare ability in the preliminary 
organization of the American Liaison Service, and wide 
comprehension of the importance of forward Inter- 
Allied Liaison. While attached to the French Division 
in Liaison with the First American Division, he per- 
formed exacting duties of a delicate nature with tact 
and energy, achieving signal success. He aided ma- 
terially in the maintenance of cordial relations between 
the French and American Military Authorities, his 
service being continually marked by ability, sound 
judgment and devotion to duty," 



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PETER ARRELL BROWN WIDENER, 1915. 

Joined Base Hospital 15, June 21, 1917. Sailed as 
a Private July 2nd, and landed in France July 16. 
Worked as French Interpreter and operating-room 
Orderly until Feb., 1918. Commissioned 1st Lieuten- 
ant, Sanitary Corps, in Feb., 1918, and served as Aide 
and Liaison Officer to General J. M. T. Furney, Chief 
of all surgery in the A.E.F. Sailed for America Jan. 
12, 1919, and was discharged Jan. 28. 



JOHN MIDDAGH WILLARD, 1903. 

Enlisted in Aug., 1917, in the Norton-Harjes Vol- 
unteer Ambulance L^nit, Section 5, "Formation 
Harjes," attached to a division of the Chasseurs Al- 
pins, known as the "Blue Devils" of the French Army, 
and saw active service at the front in the French offen- 
sive on the Chemin des Dames in Oct., serving through 
nearly that entire action, until relieved by an Ameri- 
can Ambulance Unit from AUentown, Pa. Returned to 
the U.S. in Dec. Sailed again for France in Jan., 1918, 
and joined the "Foyers du Soldat," an activity of the 
Y.M.C.A., serving as a Directeur of one of these just 
west of Rheims, again at Fere Champenoise, on the 
Aisne at Berneuil, and at Conde-sur-Aisne consecutively 
until Nov. 11, the day of the armistice. Released, and 
returned to America in Dec, 1918. 



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RICHARD HENRY WILLIAMS, Jr., 1901. 

Enlisted as a Private in the 1st Squadron, N.J. 
Cavalry, June 20, 1916. Discharged Apr. 2, 1917, to 
accept a commission as Captain of Cavalry. Resigned 
the cavalry commission on account of inability to pass 
the physical examination. Went to Washington Apr. 
5 as Assistant to the Director, Council of National De- 
fence. Appointed by the Secretary of War June 13 to 
the Committee on Council of National Defence to pur- 
chase public animals and to organize the Remount Ser- 
vice. Commissioned Oct. 12 as Lieutenant-Colonel. 
Went to France Jan. 20. Attached to G-1, General 
Hq,, G-4, S.O.S., and was Assistant Chief of Remount. 
Went to Luxembourg as Remount Officer, 3rd Army. 
Returned from there to the American Commission to 
Negotiate Peace. Was liaison with the French Re- 
mount Service ; Chief of Liaison Division, American 
Commission to Negotiate Peace ; and for a time one of 
the Secretaries of the Big Ten. Officer of the Legion 
of Honor. 



DAVID WILLIAMSON, 1914. 

Served as a Seaman in the Naval Reserve, on duty 
in the Second Naval District. Dec. 28, 1917, commis- 
sioned as Ensign, and served aboard U.S.S. Cincinnati 
in foreign waters. Discharged Dec. 20, 1918. 



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FREDERICK WILLIS, 1897. 

From May to Aug., 1917, at the 1st Plattsburg 
Camp. Commissioned 2nd Lieutenant, Q.M.C. In 
Nov., 1918, commissioned 1st Lieutenant Q.M.C. Dis- 
charged at St. Aignan, France, in May, 1919. 



HAROLD WINSLOW, 1897. 

In Apr. and May, 1917, organized Battery D, 2nd 
Mass. F.A., Mass. N.G. ; was elected 2nd Lieutenant, 
and qualified before the board of examiners of the Mass. 
N.G. at the State House, Boston, May 25. Studied 
at the Mass. F.A. Training Camp at Methuen, and 
qualified as 2nd Lieutenant in the U.S. Army in July. 
Mobilized with the Mass. F.A. at Boxford, Mass., July 
29. The 2nd Mass. F.A. then became the 102nd F.A., 
51st Artillery Brigade of the 26th (Yankee) Division, 
and left the U.S. for overseas service Sept. 21, arriving 
in France Oct. 5. Trained at Coetquidan during the 
months of Oct., Nov., and Dec, and attended the 1st 
Corps Artillery School at Gondrecourt during Jan., 
1918. First went into the front lines at Soissons 
(Chemin des Dames sector) Feb. 5. Held this sector 
until the latter part of March. Then transferred to 
the Toul sector, opposite Metz, and at the base of Mt. 
Sec. The Division held this sector until late in June, 
fighting the battles of Seicheprey Apr. 19 and Xivray- 
Marvoisin June 17. July 4 the Division was placed 
in Picardy, where it was expected that the Germans 
planned to make the July drive; but when the drive 



WAR AGAINST GERMANY 267 

did not materialize it was shifted, July 8, to Chateau- 
Thierry, where it relieved the 2nd Division. July 18 
the Division started its big drive against the Germans, 
a drive which did not stop until the enemy was driven 
back more than thirty kilometers at the Vesle. The 
51st F.A. Brigade fought steadily in this offensive 
from July 18 to Aug. 8, supporting no less than four 
divisions of infantry. In Sept., while the 26th Divi- 
sion was preparing to take its place as a part of the 
1st American Army in the St. Mihiel offensive, was re- 
lieved from duty with the A.E.F., and ordered back 
to the U.S. as an Instructor in liaison, having served 
as Artillery Liaison Officer with the 101st, 102nd, 
103rd and 104th Infantry Regiments in action. Upon 
arriving in the U.S., was promoted to the rank of 1st 
Lieutenant, the promotion dating from June 30, and 
ordered to join the overseas officers on the teaching 
staff of the F.A. Brigade Firing Centre at Camp Knox, 
Ky. Remained as a member of this staff, instructing 
in liaison and French maps, until discharged from the 
U.S. Army Dec. 10. Cited by General Clarence R. 
Edwards, commanding the 26th Division, for meri- 
torious service on July 21, 1918, "voluntarily estab- 
lishing an observation post and remaining on duty 
there twelve consecutive hours despite a dangerous 
and persistent hostile artillery fire, thereby rendering 
great assistance to his own battery and other batteries 
of the 102nd F.A. in directing their fire." 

CHARLES FARWELL WINSTON, 1911. 

From May to Aug., 1917, at the 1st Camp, Fort 
Sheridan, 111. ; then joined the 333rd F.A. as 2nd Lieu- 



268 SAINT MARK'S SCHOOL IN THE 

tenant, F.A., at Camp Grant, 111. In foreign service 
from Dec. 13, 1917, to Feb. 1, 1919, with the 2nd F.A. 
Brigade, 2nd Division, and G-2, General Hq. 



^FRANCIS APPLETON WOOD, 1912. 

Francis Appleton Wood was born in Ipswich, 
Mass., on the second of June, 1894, at Briar Hill, the 
home of his grandfather the Rev. John Cotton Smith, 
on Appleton Farms, where his forefathers had lived 
from colonial days. He was the son of Chalmers Wood 
and Ellen Appleton (Smith) Wood. He lived during 
the winters in New York, and attended Cutler School 
before entering the Fourth Form at St. Mark's in 
1909. He graduated from St. Mark's in 1912, and en- 
tered Columbia College with the class of 1916, complet- 
ing the college course in three years. In the summer 
of 1915 he went abroad, and in the fall started work 
in New York as a broker. He had enlisted in the 
Seventh Regiment, and in the summer of 1916 went 
to the Mexican border, where he was soon commis- 
sioned a Second Lieutenant in the 169th Regiment, 
New York National Guard. He had just returned 
to his business when the war broke out. 

Resigning his commission, he chose the Air Service; 
took his ground training at the Boston School of 
Technology; and was sent for training to the Royal 
Flying Corps in Canada and Texas, where he obtained 
his second lieutenancy and his "wings" in the United 
States Aviation Corps. He sailed for England, and 
trained there at a flying school in Norfolk and at the 
Central Flying School. He was commissioned a First 




FRANCIS APPLETON WOOD 



WAR AGAINST GERMANY 269 

Lieutenant, and in August sent to the front with the 
99th Bombing Squadron in Alsace, a reprisal squadron 
with the British Independent Air Force. On Septem- 
ber thirteenth his Squadron was called upon to help 
the Americans in their St. Mihiel salient attack by 
harassing the German troops between Pont-a-Mousson 
and Metz at the east of the American sector. Wood 
and his British observer, Lieutenant Bridget, volun- 
teered for this precarious mission. The planes were 
to fly singly over the lines, leaving the field at half- 
hour intervals. The low clouds forced them to fly 
at a height of less than 600 meters from the ground. 
They made their way up the river, dropping bombs on 
the German troops and scattering them with machine- 
gun fire. But the German anti-aircraft batteries, aided 
by the low clouds of known altitude, had been silently 
setting their guns on them, and as they turned at Metz 
for home the batteries one after another opened their 
accurate fire. Wood's plane fell at Jouy-aux-Arches, 
a small town fifteen kilometers south of Metz. His 
observer was killed with him, shot through the head. 
They were buried by the Germans in Metz. After the 
armistice Wood's body was removed to the American 
cemetery at Thiaucourt, where it now rests. 

Francis Wood was beloved by young and old; he 
seemed to radiate a friendship so irresistible as to be 
almost a visible force. From the President of his Uni- 
versity; from the elderly friend who as stranger to 
his family must "apologize for paying her tribute to 
her brave soldier boy" ; from a great artist ; from 
schoolmates ; from his Colonel in the Seventh, and from 
hosts of others, testimony to his manliness and sweetness 
of character reveal the immensity of the sacrifice. War 



270 SAINT MARK'S SCHOOL IN THE 

he hated with every instinct ; but his duty was stronger 
in him than any instinct ; and if his friends grieve at 
his loss they also feel a joy and gratitude that his 
beautiful life was long enough to brighten forever the 
lives of all who knew him. 

This is the short account, says one of these friends, 
of one who, like so many others, left the glad life he 
loved to meet his destiny in death, bravely, long before 
his day. But those who knew him see far beyond the 
recordings of his life. To them the vision in his young 
eyes, now closed, lives on with the beauty of his face 
and the undying inspiration of his blameless life. Like 
the shining knight of other days who, falling, left to 
those he loved his sword and shield, so does Francis 
Wood leave to us his possessions, — gentleness and 
courtesy and honor, — which we shall guard as we 
would guard his sword, bright and undimmed forever 
in our memory. And even as we look beyond the mere 
chances of his life, so do we look beyond his death. No 
one was by him when he died; but how clearly we see 
him. Reproach was not in his eyes when he saw be- 
neath him his inevitable fate. Calm and brave, un- 
willing yet unquestioning, fearless, he met death as he 
had met life, courageous and faithful, unflinching and 
unafraid. 



ROLAND GILPIN WOOD, 1909. 

Enlisted at Fort Slocum, New York, Apr. 5, 1918. 
Transferred to the Curtiss Aero and Motor Corpora- 
tion, Apr. 12. Served as a Private in the A.S. until 
Oct, 5. Received a commission as 2nd Lieutenant in 



WAR AGAINST GERMANY 271 

the A.S., Oct. 5. Ordered to the Pierce Arrow Motor 
Car Company Oct. 8, to be Approvals Officer for the 
300 horse-power Hispana-Suiza aeroplane motor, until 
discharged Apr. 11, 1919. 



WILLIAM LAWRENCE WOOD, 1904. 

From Oct. 1, 191T, to Aug. 21, 1918, Red Cross 
Chaplain of Base Hospital No. 1 ; from Aug. 21 to Oct. 
12, Red Cross Chaplain of Mobile Hospital No. 2 ; from 
Oct. 12 to Feb. 13, 1919, Chaplain (1st Lieutenant), 
U.S.A., of Mobile Hospital No. 2. Engaged in the bat- 
tles at St. Mihiel and the Argonne forest. 



EDWARD LOWELL ANDERSON WOODS, 1916. 

Enlisted in the U.S.N.R.F., Feb. 15, 1918, as 
Landsman Electrician, Radio. Soon changed rating 
to Seaman of the 2nd class. Made one of the crew of 
the U.S.S. Rochester, a convoy cruiser. Released from 
active service Jan. 15, 1919. 



THEODORE SALISBURY WOOLSEY, Jr., 1897. 

Enlisted as a Major in the Engineer R.C. Aug. 7, 
1917. Aug. 8 left for overseas service, and during the 
war was stationed in Paris, acting as American Dele- 
gate on the Executive Committee of the Inter-Allied 
War Wood Commission. Left France June 17, 1919, 



272 SAINT MARK'S SCHOOL IN THE 

arriving in New York June 2T. Mustered out July 15, 
as Lieutenant-Colonel. Cited by General Pershing 
Apr. 19, 1919, and received the following decorations: 
Chevalier, Legion d'Honneur (France) ; Distinguished 
Service Order (England) ; Chevalier, Order of Leopold 
(Belgium). The citations follow. 

"For exceptionally meritorious and conspicuous ser- 
vice at Tours, France, American Expeditionary Forces, 
in testament thereof, and as an expression of these ser- 
vices, I award him this citation. Awarded on April 
19, 1919. John J. Pershing." 

The Distinguished Service Order was awarded "for 
distinguished services to the Allied Cause." 

The French Legion of Honor and the Belgian Order 
of Leopold were awarded for the same reasons. 



CARLETON FAY WRIGHT, 1918. 

Private, S.S.U. 635, U.S. A.A.S. with the French 
Army. Went to France as a member of the A.A.F.S., 
enlisted in Paris Nov. 10, 1917, and continued in for- 
eign service until March 27, 1919. Discharged at 
Camp Dix, N.J., Apr. 4, 1919. Took part in the fol- 
lowing battles, etc. : Champagne sector, Dec. 3, 1917, 
to Jan. 20, 1918; Somme defensive, March 31 to Apr. 
14; Aisne sector, May 8 to 27; Aisne defensive. May 
21 to June 3 ; Montdidier-Noyon defensive, June 4 to 
16; Verdun sector, July 6 to Sept. 12; St. Mihiel 
offensive, Sept. 12 to 16; St. Mihiel sector, Sept. 16 
to Oct. 18; Meuse-Argonne offensive, Oct. 30 to Nov. 
11, 1918. The following citation is for the Croix de 
Guerre. 



WAR AGAINST GERMANY 273 

"Conducteur tres brave et tres devoue. S'est fait 
remarquer par son courage au cours des operations de 
I'Aisne (28 mai-15 juin 1918) en evacuant de nombreux 
blesses dans une zone battue par I'artillerie ennemie." 



WILLIAM ALEXANDER ZIEGLER, Master. 

Went to the 2nd O.T.C., Fort Snelling, Minn., in 
Aug., 1917. Commissioned Captain of Infantry in Nov. 
Attached to Company A and M.G. Company, 364th 
Infantry, Camp Lewis, Washington, from Jan. to June, 
1918. Promoted to Major, Infantry, Aug. 18. Com- 
manding Battalion, M.G., 13th Division, Camp Lewis, 
Washington, from Aug. to Dec. Commanding Officer 
of Convalescent Centre, Camp Lewis, Washington, 
from Feb. to May, 1919. At present Member of 
Board of Special Survey, 461 Eighth Avenue, New 
York, N.Y. [Feb., 1920.] 



{^Delayed report, not included in summary.^ 

JOHN BROOKS FENNO, Jr., 1917. 

Attended the Harvard R.O.T.C. and the Plattsburg 
R.O.T.C. Assigned to Camp Lee, but prevented from 
going by illness. 



SUMMARY 

Number in Service 449 

Died in Service 20 

United States Armj 256 

British Army 6 

French Army and Foreign Legion 6 

United States Navy 58 

Military Air Service 48 

Naval Air Service 13 

British Military Air Service 6 

Naval Intelligence 3 

Marine Corps 13 

Volunteer Ambulance 1 

Red Cross 13 

Naval Training Camps 2 

Marine Training Camps 1 

Young Men's Christian Association 3 

Chaplains 2 

Unclassified (served with more than one branch, 

etc.) 10 

No reports (Service as learned from other sources) : 

United States Army 4 

Training Camps 1 

British Army 1 

British Military Air Service 1 

No information received 1 

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United States Army Officers: Colonel, 1; Lieutenant- 
Colonel, 14 ; Major, 28 ; Captain, 65 ; 1st Lieutenant, 
59 ; 2nd Lieutenant, 37 ; Provisional 2nd Lieuten- 
ant, 1. 

Fretich and Foreign Legion Officers: 1st Lieutenant, 1 ; 
Sous-Lieutenant, 4. 

British Army Officers: Lieutenant-Colonel, 1; 2nd 
Lieutenant, 2. 

United States Navy Officers : Commander, 1 ; Lieuten- 
ant-Commander, 2 ; Lieutenant, 6; Lieutenant (j.g.)» 
19; Ensign, 15. 

United States Military Air Service Officers: Major, 5; 
Captain, 9; 1st Lieutenant, 15; Lieutenant (j.g.), 
2 ; 2nd Lieutenant, 12. 

United States Naval Air Service Officers: Lieutenant- 
Commander, 1; Lieutenant, 4; Lieutenant (j-g.)? 2; 
Ensign, 4. 

British Military Air Service Officers: 1st Lieutenant, 

1 ; 2nd Lieutenant, 1 ; 1st Flight Lieutenant, 2. 
Naval Intelligence Officers: Lieutenant, 1; Lieutenant 

U-g-), 1. 

Marine Corps Officers: 1st Lieutenant, 1 ; 2nd Lieuten- 
ant, 3. 

Red Cross Officers: Major, 2; Captain, 5; 1st Lieu- 
tenant, 1. 

Young Men's Christian Association: Divisional Secre- 
tary, 1. 

No report: (rank as learned from other sources) — 
Army: Major, 1 ; Captain, 1 ; 1st Lieutenant, 1 ; 2nd 
Lieutenant, 1. British Military Air Service: Cap- 
tain, 1. 



WAR AGAINST GERMANY 277 

CITATIONS, DECORATIONS, ETC. 

Citations : 

General Citations 42 

Cited and recommended for the Croix de Guerre 2 
Cited and recommended for the Distinguished 

Service Cross 1 

Cited and recommended for the Distinguished 
Service Medal 1 



Decorations: 
American : 

Congressional Medal 1 

Distinguished Service Medal 2 

Distinguished Service Cross 11 

Navy Cross 1 

15 

French : 

Legion d'Honneur 15 

Medaille Militaire 2 

Croix de Guerre 28 

Fourragere de la Medaille Militaire 3 

Fourragere de la Croix de Guerre 3 

Medaille d'Honneur 2 

Medaille des Epidemies 1 

Medaille du Service Benevole 1 

Officier, Instruction Publique 1 

American Field Service Medal 2 



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278 SAINT MARK'S SCHOOL 

British: 

Distinguished Service Order. . 2 

Military Cross 3 

Victorian Order 1 

Mons Star 2 

8 
Italian : 

Knight Officer, Crown of Italy 1 

War Cross 2 

3 

Belgian : 

Order of Leopold 1 

Russian : 

Order of St. Stanislas 1 

Montenegrin : 

Order of Danilo 1 

Others : 

Honors from the City of Antwerp 1 

Degree of Master of Arts, Harvard College . . 1 



Total, 135 



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